Elevation of Desamparados, San José, Costa Rica

Desamparados, San José, Costa Rica is 1,159 m (3,802 ft) above sea level.

Desamparados's height from sea level is 1,159 metres, or 3,802 feet. GeoNames reads 1,158 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,148 m to 1,161 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,111 m – 1,645 m

Mean 1,235 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 534 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 55

among the towns of San José, and 60th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Gravilias

0.3 km to the SE, at 1,159 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Desamparados

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 Desamparados; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,404 m at 14 km west to 1,571 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,392 m at 14 km north to 1,368 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Desamparados, 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 Desamparados

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Gravilias	0.3 km	SE	1,159 m (3,802 ft)	same
San Miguel	1.7 km	SW	1,162 m (3,812 ft)	+3 m
Tirrases	2.5 km	NE	1,236 m (4,055 ft)	+77 m
San Rafael Arriba	2.7 km	SW	1,181 m (3,875 ft)	+22 m
Curridabat	3.1 km	NE	1,204 m (3,950 ft)	+45 m

Peaks and passes near Desamparados

Cerro Pico Alto, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 9.5 km to the SW — 1,269 m above the town.
Cerro Rabo de Mico, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 10 km to the SW — 1,269 m above the town.
Cerro Cedral, peak at 2,420 m (7,940 ft), 10.1 km to the SW — 1,261 m above the town.

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

Where Desamparados is

Latitude 9.8969706, longitude -84.0616709. 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 Desamparados'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 1,158 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.