Elevation of Santa María, San José, Costa Rica
Santa María, San José, Costa Rica is 1,550 m (5,085 ft) above sea level.
Santa María's height from sea level is 1,550 metres, or 5,085 feet. GeoNames reads 1,560 m at the same point (SRTM).
Also written: Santa María de Dota.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 1,892 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,024 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Santa María
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Santa María; 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 Santa María
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Rafael (Cartago) | 2 km | N | 1,665 m (5,463 ft) | +115 m |
| Guadalupe (Cartago) | 3.6 km | W | 1,524 m (5,000 ft) | −26 m |
| San Marcos de Tarrazú | 5.6 km | W | 1,457 m (4,780 ft) | −93 m |
| Copey | 5.6 km | E | 1,999 m (6,558 ft) | +449 m |
| Pacayas (Cartago) | 18.7 km | NW | 1,580 m (5,184 ft) | +30 m |
Where Santa María is
Latitude 9.6522448, longitude -83.9676837. 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 Santa María'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 1,560 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.