Elevation of Laguna, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Laguna, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 1,786 m (5,860 ft) above sea level.

Laguna's height from sea level is 1,786 metres, or 5,860 feet. GeoNames reads 1,844 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,198 m – 2,148 m

Mean 1,663 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 950 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 4th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the S, at 1,721 m, 65 m lower.

Cross-section through Laguna

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 Laguna; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,225601WE28.5 km
West to east: from 891 m at 14 km west to 1,571 m at 14 km east.
2,225601NS28.5 km
North to south: from 713 m at 14 km north to 1,250 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Laguna, 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 Laguna

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Zarcero 3.1 kmS 1,721 m (5,646 ft) −65 m
Río Segundo 11.7 kmE 1,467 m (4,813 ft) −319 m
San Roque 12.3 kmS 1,058 m (3,471 ft) −728 m
Quesada 12.5 kmN 674 m (2,211 ft) −1,112 m
Naranjo 12.6 kmS 1,053 m (3,455 ft) −733 m

Peaks and passes near Laguna

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

Where Laguna is

Latitude 10.211368, longitude -84.402077. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Laguna elevation: 1,786 m (5,860 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 Laguna'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 1,844 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.