Elevation of San Rafael, Alajuela, Costa Rica

San Rafael, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 794 m (2,605 ft) above sea level.

San Rafael's height from sea level is 794 metres, or 2,605 feet.

Ground within 5 km

613 m – 1,449 m

Mean 837 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 836 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 113th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Colón

4.2 km to the S, at 792 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through San Rafael

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 Rafael; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 502 m at 14 km west to 1,076 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,112 m at 14 km north to 819 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Rafael, 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 San Rafael

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Colón (San José)	4.2 km	S	792 m (2,598 ft)	−2 m
Santa Ana (San José)	6.8 km	E	893 m (2,930 ft)	+99 m
San Antonio	7.8 km	NE	927 m (3,041 ft)	+133 m
Alajuela	8.1 km	N	922 m (3,025 ft)	+128 m
Salitral (San José)	8.1 km	SE	1,045 m (3,428 ft)	+251 m

Peaks and passes near San Rafael

Cerro Rabo de Mico, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 16 km to the SE — 1,634 m above the town.
Cerro Pico Alto, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 16.8 km to the SE — 1,634 m above the town.
Cerro Cedral, peak at 2,420 m (7,940 ft), 14.6 km to the SE — 1,626 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 Rafael is

Latitude 9.9474168, longitude -84.2436849. 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 Rafael'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.