Elevation of San Juan, Cartago, Costa Rica
San Juan, Cartago, Costa Rica is 1,003 m (3,291 ft) above sea level.
San Juan's height from sea level is 1,003 metres, or 3,291 feet.
Also written: San Juan de la Unión.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 1,265 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 895 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through San Juan
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 San Juan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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 San Juan
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paraíso | 5.2 km | W | 1,333 m (4,373 ft) | +330 m |
| Orosi | 5.4 km | SW | 1,070 m (3,510 ft) | +67 m |
| San Rafael | 8.3 km | S | 1,392 m (4,567 ft) | +389 m |
| Cot | 9.1 km | NW | 1,827 m (5,994 ft) | +824 m |
| Juan Viñas | 9.7 km | NE | 1,172 m (3,845 ft) | +169 m |
Peaks and passes near San Juan
- Volcán Irazú, volcano at 3,432 m (11,260 ft), 16.9 km to the N — 2,429 m above the town.
- Volcán Turrialba, volcano at 3,340 m (10,958 ft), 22.1 km to the N — 2,337 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where San Juan is
Latitude 9.832972, longitude -83.820846. 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 San Juan'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.