Elevation of Puerto Viejo, Heredia, Costa Rica

Puerto Viejo, Heredia, Costa Rica is 50 m (164 ft) above sea level.

Puerto Viejo's height from sea level is 50 metres, or 164 feet. GeoNames reads 42 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

38 m – 133 m

Mean 56 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 95 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 24

among the towns of Heredia, and 176th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

2.1 km to the NW, at 66 m, 16 m higher.

Cross-section through Puerto Viejo

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 Puerto Viejo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

27514WE28.5 km
West to east: from 118 m at 14 km west to 60 m at 14 km east.
27514NS28.5 km
North to south: from 33 m at 14 km north to 257 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Puerto Viejo, 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 Viejo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Barrantes 2.1 kmNW 66 m (217 ft) +16 m
Horquetas 15 kmSE 78 m (256 ft) +28 m
San Miguel 25.7 kmSW 491 m (1,611 ft) +441 m
Pital (Alajuela) 29.2 kmW 159 m (522 ft) +109 m
Rita (Limón) 30.9 kmSE 122 m (400 ft) +72 m

Where Puerto Viejo is

Latitude 10.459374, longitude -84.003877. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Puerto Viejo elevation: 50 m (164 ft) above sea level

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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 Viejo'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 42 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.