Elevation of Horquetas, Heredia, Costa Rica

Horquetas, Heredia, Costa Rica is 78 m (256 ft) above sea level.

Horquetas's height from sea level is 78 metres, or 256 feet. GeoNames reads 75 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

52 m – 293 m

Mean 110 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 241 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 24

among the towns of Heredia, and 170th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

15 km to the NW, at 50 m, 28 m lower.

Cross-section through Horquetas

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 Horquetas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

6472WE28.5 km
West to east: from 460 m at 14 km west to 88 m at 14 km east.
6472NS28.5 km
North to south: from 48 m at 14 km north to 602 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Horquetas, 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 Horquetas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Puerto Viejo 15 kmNW 50 m (164 ft) −28 m
Barrantes 17 kmNW 66 m (217 ft) −12 m
Rita (Limón) 18.9 kmE 122 m (400 ft) +44 m
Guápiles (Limón) 22.8 kmSE 299 m (981 ft) +221 m
Roxana (Limón) 23.2 kmE 111 m (364 ft) +33 m

Where Horquetas is

Latitude 10.3352857, longitude -83.9506104. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Horquetas elevation: 78 m (256 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 Horquetas'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 75 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.