Elevation of Cañas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Cañas, Guanacaste, Costa Rica is 86 m (282 ft) above sea level.

Cañas's height from sea level is 86 metres, or 282 feet. GeoNames reads 86 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

27 m – 319 m

Mean 104 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 292 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 16

among the towns of Guanacaste, and 169th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

14.8 km to the E, at 570 m, 484 m higher.

Cross-section through Cañas

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 Cañas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

534-17WE28.5 km
West to east: from 24 m at 14 km west to 496 m at 14 km east.
534-17NS28.5 km
North to south: from 221 m at 14 km north to 28 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Cañas, 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 Cañas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tilarán 14.8 kmE 570 m (1,870 ft) +484 m
Bagaces 20.1 kmNW 78 m (256 ft) −8 m
Juntas 22 kmSE 183 m (600 ft) +97 m
Mogote 29.4 kmW 120 m (394 ft) +34 m
Fortuna 29.8 kmNW 425 m (1,394 ft) +339 m

Where Cañas is

Latitude 10.426655, longitude -85.095806. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cañas elevation: 86 m (282 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 Cañas'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 86 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.