Elevation of Quepos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Quepos, Puntarenas, Costa Rica is 28 m (92 ft) above sea level.

Quepos's height from sea level is 28 metres, or 92 feet. GeoNames reads 7 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 133 m

Mean 24 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 133 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 21

among the towns of Puntarenas, and 183rd of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

20.5 km to the NW, at 12 m, 16 m lower.

Cross-section through Quepos

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 Quepos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

657-49WE28.6 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 46 m at 14 km east.
657-49NS28.6 km
North to south: from 608 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Quepos, 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 Quepos

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Parrita 20.5 kmNW 12 m (39 ft) −16 m
San Marcos de Tarrazú (San José) 29.7 kmNE 1,457 m (4,780 ft) +1,429 m
Guadalupe (Cartago) 30 kmNE 1,524 m (5,000 ft) +1,496 m
Santa María (San José) 32.4 kmNE 1,550 m (5,085 ft) +1,522 m
San Rafael (Cartago) 33.8 kmNE 1,665 m (5,463 ft) +1,637 m

Where Quepos is

Latitude 9.4319444, longitude -84.1611111. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Quepos elevation: 28 m (92 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 Quepos'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 7 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.