Elevation of Puerto Cortés, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Puerto Cortés, Puntarenas, Costa Rica is 7 m (23 ft) above sea level.

Puerto Cortés's height from sea level is 7 metres, or 23 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Also written: Ciudad Cortés.

Ground within 5 km

1 m – 301 m

Mean 32 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 300 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 21

among the towns of Puntarenas, and 194th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Trinidad

19.4 km to the N, at 725 m, 718 m higher.

Cross-section through Puerto Cortés

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Puerto Cortés; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 235 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 595 m at 14 km north to 17 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Puerto Cortés, 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 Puerto Cortés

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Trinidad (San José)	19.4 km	N	725 m (2,379 ft)	+718 m
Buenos Aires	32.4 km	NE	379 m (1,243 ft)	+372 m
Mercedes (San José)	35.8 km	N	583 m (1,913 ft)	+576 m
Guaycará	36.2 km	NE	634 m (2,080 ft)	+627 m

Where Puerto Cortés is

Latitude 8.952321, longitude -83.528053. 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 Puerto Cortés'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 22 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.