Elevation of Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Santa Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica is 64 m (210 ft) above sea level.

Santa Cruz's height from sea level is 64 metres, or 210 feet. GeoNames reads 58 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

27 m – 341 m

Mean 104 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 314 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 16

among the towns of Guanacaste, and 173rd of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

16.5 km to the N, at 40 m, 24 m lower.

Cross-section through Santa Cruz

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 Santa Cruz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

817-42WE28.5 km
West to east: from 46 m at 14 km west to 31 m at 14 km east.
817-42NS28.5 km
North to south: from 75 m at 14 km north to 757 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Santa Cruz, 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 Santa Cruz

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Belén 16.5 kmN 40 m (131 ft) −24 m
Nicoya 19.2 kmSE 136 m (446 ft) +72 m
Filadeldia 21.2 kmN 21 m (69 ft) −43 m
Hojancha 28.8 kmSE 350 m (1,148 ft) +286 m
Sardinal 29.2 kmN 50 m (164 ft) −14 m

Where Santa Cruz is

Latitude 10.25675, longitude -85.585747. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Santa Cruz elevation: 64 m (210 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Santa Cruz'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 58 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.