Elevation of Desemparados, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Desemparados, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 336 m (1,102 ft) above sea level.

Desemparados's height from sea level is 336 metres, or 1,102 feet. GeoNames reads 281 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 281 m.

Also written: Desamparados.

Ground within 5 km

162 m – 1,218 m

Mean 483 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,056 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 138th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

San Mateo

3 km to the SW, at 253 m, 83 m lower.

Cross-section through Desemparados

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 Desemparados; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 139 m at 14 km west to 591 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,092 m at 14 km north to 479 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Desemparados, 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 Desemparados

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
San Mateo	3 km	SW	253 m (830 ft)	−83 m
Orotina	5 km	SW	236 m (774 ft)	−100 m
Mastate	8 km	SW	185 m (607 ft)	−151 m
San Pablo (San José)	8.4 km	SE	423 m (1,388 ft)	+87 m
Guácimo	10 km	E	744 m (2,441 ft)	+408 m

Peaks and passes near Desemparados

Cerro San Miguel, peak at 634 m (2,080 ft), 23.9 km to the W — 298 m above the town.

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

Where Desemparados is

Latitude 9.95, longitude -84.5. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/49_38,Desemparados,Alajuela,Costa+Rica"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/49_38.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Desemparados elevation: 336 m (1,102 ft) above sea level"></a>

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 Desemparados'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 281 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.