Elevation of La Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

La Cruz, Guanacaste, Costa Rica is 233 m (764 ft) above sea level.

La Cruz's height from sea level is 233 metres, or 764 feet. GeoNames reads 241 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1 m – 269 m

Mean 165 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 268 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 16

among the towns of Guanacaste, and 148th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

18.8 km to the NE, at 37 m, 196 m lower.

Cross-section through La Cruz

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 La Cruz; the vertical scale is the same on both.

318-24WE28.5 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 278 m at 14 km east.
318-24NS28.5 km
North to south: from 89 m at 14 km north to 292 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around La Cruz, 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 La Cruz

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cárdenas (Nicaragua) 18.8 kmNE 37 m (121 ft) −196 m
San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua) 32.9 kmNW 15 m (49 ft) −218 m
Dos Ríos (Alajuela) 33.5 kmSE 541 m (1,775 ft) +308 m

Peaks and passes near La Cruz

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

Where La Cruz is

Latitude 11.07419, longitude -85.629097. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Cruz elevation: 233 m (764 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 La Cruz'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 241 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.