Elevation of Dulce Nombre, Cartago, Costa Rica

Dulce Nombre, Cartago, Costa Rica is 903 m (2,963 ft) above sea level.

Dulce Nombre's height from sea level is 903 metres, or 2,963 feet. GeoNames reads 867 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Dulce Nombre de la Unión.

Ground within 5 km

324 m – 1,644 m

Mean 857 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,320 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 26

among the towns of Cartago, and 110th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Turrialba

9.6 km to the S, at 685 m, 218 m lower.

Cross-section through Dulce Nombre

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 Dulce Nombre; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,526 m at 14 km west to 582 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 482 m at 14 km north to 586 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Dulce Nombre, 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 Dulce Nombre

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Turrialba	9.6 km	S	685 m (2,247 ft)	−218 m
Juan Viñas	14.9 km	SW	1,172 m (3,845 ft)	+269 m
La Suiza	15.4 km	S	644 m (2,113 ft)	−259 m
Capellades	15.4 km	SW	1,630 m (5,348 ft)	+727 m
Tucurrique	16 km	SW	745 m (2,444 ft)	−158 m

Peaks and passes near Dulce Nombre

Volcán Irazú, volcano at 3,432 m (11,260 ft), 21 km to the W — 2,529 m above the town.
Volcán Turrialba, volcano at 3,340 m (10,958 ft), 12.4 km to the W — 2,437 m above the town.

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

Where Dulce Nombre is

Latitude 9.983259, longitude -83.6579498. 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 Dulce Nombre'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 867 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.