Elevation of San Rafael, Alajuela, Costa Rica
San Rafael, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 1,051 m (3,448 ft) above sea level.
San Rafael's height from sea level is 1,051 metres, or 3,448 feet. GeoNames reads 1,074 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 5 km
Mean 1,086 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 500 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Ramón | 2.2 km | NW | 1,060 m (3,478 ft) | +9 m |
| Palmares | 2.6 km | SE | 1,023 m (3,356 ft) | −28 m |
| Santiago | 3.1 km | W | 1,085 m (3,560 ft) | +34 m |
| Esquipulas | 4.4 km | E | 1,002 m (3,287 ft) | −49 m |
| San Roque | 4.8 km | NE | 1,058 m (3,471 ft) | +7 m |
Where San Rafael is
Latitude 10.07, longitude -84.46. 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. GeoNames' reading of 1,074 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.