Elevation of Cinco Esquinas, San José, Costa Rica

Cinco Esquinas, San José, Costa Rica is 1,631 m (5,351 ft) above sea level.

Cinco Esquinas's height from sea level is 1,631 metres, or 5,351 feet. GeoNames reads 1,605 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,222 m – 2,665 m

Mean 1,724 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,443 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 55

among the towns of San José, and 7th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

4.1 km to the SE, at 1,404 m, 227 m lower.

Cross-section through Cinco Esquinas

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 Cinco Esquinas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,380878WE28.5 km
West to east: from 1,147 m at 14 km west to 1,771 m at 14 km east.
2,380878NS28.5 km
North to south: from 1,159 m at 14 km north to 982 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Cinco Esquinas, 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 Cinco Esquinas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Santo Domingo (Heredia) 4.1 kmSE 1,404 m (4,606 ft) −227 m
Sabanilla (Alajuela) 6.1 kmSW 1,284 m (4,213 ft) −347 m
Santa Bárbara (Heredia) 7.1 kmS 1,136 m (3,727 ft) −495 m
San Pedro (Alajuela) 9.3 kmW 1,112 m (3,648 ft) −519 m
Barva (Heredia) 10 kmSE 1,163 m (3,816 ft) −468 m

Peaks and passes near Cinco Esquinas

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Cinco Esquinas is

Latitude 10.103171, longitude -84.166504. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Cinco Esquinas elevation: 1,631 m (5,351 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 Cinco Esquinas'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 1,605 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.