Elevation of Trinidad, San José, Costa Rica

Trinidad, San José, Costa Rica is 725 m (2,379 ft) above sea level.

Trinidad's height from sea level is 725 metres, or 2,379 feet. GeoNames reads 678 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

123 m – 1,089 m

Mean 669 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 966 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

50th of 55

among the towns of San José, and 118th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

16.8 km to the N, at 583 m, 142 m lower.

Cross-section through Trinidad

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 Trinidad; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,065-74WE28.6 km
West to east: from 14 m at 14 km west to 570 m at 14 km east.
1,065-74NS28.6 km
North to south: from 488 m at 14 km north to 8 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Trinidad, 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 Trinidad

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mercedes 16.8 kmN 583 m (1,913 ft) −142 m
Puerto Cortés (Puntarenas) 19.4 kmS 7 m (23 ft) −718 m
Daniel Flores 25.4 kmNW 634 m (2,080 ft) −91 m
Buenos Aires (Puntarenas) 28.1 kmE 379 m (1,243 ft) −346 m
Guaycará (Puntarenas) 29.2 kmE 634 m (2,080 ft) −91 m

Where Trinidad is

Latitude 9.118613, longitude -83.582779. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Trinidad elevation: 725 m (2,379 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 Trinidad'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 678 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.