Elevation of Pital, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Pital, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 159 m (522 ft) above sea level.

Pital's height from sea level is 159 metres, or 522 feet. GeoNames reads 161 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

92 m – 260 m

Mean 161 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 168 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 156th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Buenos Aires

9.8 km to the S, at 408 m, 249 m higher.

Cross-section through Pital

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pital; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 119 m at 14 km west to 130 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 65 m at 14 km north to 611 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Pital, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 60 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Pital

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Buenos Aires	9.8 km	S	408 m (1,339 ft)	+249 m
San Miguel (Heredia)	18.5 km	SE	491 m (1,611 ft)	+332 m
San Juan	18.6 km	W	126 m (413 ft)	−33 m
Turrícares	19.5 km	W	335 m (1,099 ft)	+176 m
Quesada	22.5 km	SW	674 m (2,211 ft)	+515 m

Peaks and passes near Pital

Volcán Platanar, volcano at 2,267 m (7,438 ft), 19.7 km to the SW — 2,108 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Pital is

Latitude 10.45124, longitude -84.270714. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Pital's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 161 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.