Elevation of Fortuna, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Fortuna, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 273 m (896 ft) above sea level.

Fortuna's height from sea level is 273 metres, or 896 feet. GeoNames reads 256 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

135 m – 1,032 m

Mean 370 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 897 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

32nd of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 143rd of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

10.4 km to the S, at 442 m, 169 m higher.

Cross-section through Fortuna

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 Fortuna; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,542-41WE28.5 km
West to east: from 549 m at 14 km west to 69 m at 14 km east.
1,542-41NS28.5 km
North to south: from 213 m at 14 km north to 749 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Fortuna, 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 Fortuna

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pocosol 10.4 kmS 442 m (1,450 ft) +169 m
San José 13.6 kmE 88 m (289 ft) −185 m
Tigra 13.8 kmS 377 m (1,237 ft) +104 m
Venado 15.6 kmNW 273 m (896 ft) same
Florencia 21.4 kmSE 213 m (699 ft) −60 m

Peaks and passes near Fortuna

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

Where Fortuna is

Latitude 10.46546, longitude -84.64537. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Fortuna elevation: 273 m (896 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 Fortuna'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 256 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.