Elevation of Pozos, San José, Costa Rica

Pozos, San José, Costa Rica is 943 m (3,094 ft) above sea level.

Pozos's height from sea level is 943 metres, or 3,094 feet. GeoNames reads 1,010 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

285 m – 1,169 m

Mean 719 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 884 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

47th of 55

among the towns of San José, and 106th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

San Rafael Abajo

3.4 km to the NE, at 696 m, 247 m lower.

Cross-section through Pozos

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 Pozos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 891 m at 14 km west to 1,010 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 572 m at 14 km north to 193 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Pozos, 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 Pozos

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
San Rafael Abajo	3.4 km	NE	696 m (2,283 ft)	−247 m
Santiago	4.7 km	NW	1,123 m (3,684 ft)	+180 m
El Tejar (Cartago)	9 km	SE	944 m (3,097 ft)	+1 m
Palmichal	10.8 km	E	1,120 m (3,675 ft)	+177 m
Colón	13 km	NE	792 m (2,598 ft)	−151 m

Peaks and passes near Pozos

Cerro Rabo de Mico, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 17.9 km to the E — 1,485 m above the town.
Cerro Pico Alto, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 18.6 km to the E — 1,485 m above the town.
Cerro Cedral, peak at 2,420 m (7,940 ft), 17.4 km to the E — 1,477 m above the town.

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

Where Pozos is

Latitude 9.80411, longitude -84.294701. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Pozos'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 1,010 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.