Elevation of Buenos Aires, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

Buenos Aires, Puntarenas, Costa Rica is 379 m (1,243 ft) above sea level.

Buenos Aires's height from sea level is 379 metres, or 1,243 feet. GeoNames reads 383 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

248 m – 669 m

Mean 403 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 421 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 21

among the towns of Puntarenas, and 135th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

5.2 km to the N, at 634 m, 255 m higher.

Cross-section through Buenos Aires

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 Buenos Aires; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,33896WE28.6 km
West to east: from 478 m at 14 km west to 637 m at 14 km east.
1,33896NS28.6 km
North to south: from 1,252 m at 14 km north to 514 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Buenos Aires, 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 Buenos Aires

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Guaycará 5.2 kmN 634 m (2,080 ft) +255 m
Trinidad (San José) 28.1 kmW 725 m (2,379 ft) +346 m
Mercedes (San José) 29.4 kmW 583 m (1,913 ft) +204 m
Puerto Cortés 32.4 kmSW 7 m (23 ft) −372 m

Where Buenos Aires is

Latitude 9.1702278, longitude -83.3319. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Buenos Aires elevation: 379 m (1,243 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 Buenos Aires'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 383 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.