Elevation of La Cuesta, Puntarenas, Costa Rica

La Cuesta, Puntarenas, Costa Rica is 32 m (105 ft) above sea level.

La Cuesta's height from sea level is 32 metres, or 105 feet. GeoNames reads 42 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

12 m – 102 m

Mean 38 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 90 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 21

among the towns of Puntarenas, and 182nd of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

4.6 km to the SE, at 24 m, 8 m lower.

Cross-section through La Cuesta

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La Cuesta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

249-4WE28.6 km
West to east: from 23 m at 14 km west to 117 m at 14 km east.
249-4NS28.6 km
North to south: from 231 m at 14 km north to 23 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around La Cuesta, 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 Cuesta

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Progreso (Panama) 4.6 kmSE 24 m (79 ft) −8 m
Canoas 5.8 kmN 126 m (413 ft) +94 m
San Isidro (Panama) 6.5 kmNE 144 m (472 ft) +112 m
Aserrío de Gariché (Panama) 8.1 kmE 80 m (262 ft) +48 m
Gariché (Panama) 8.1 kmE 80 m (262 ft) +48 m

Where La Cuesta is

Latitude 8.4828379, longitude -82.8518069. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Cuesta elevation: 32 m (105 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 Cuesta'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 42 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.