Elevation of La Suiza, Cartago, Costa Rica

La Suiza, Cartago, Costa Rica is 644 m (2,113 ft) above sea level.

La Suiza's height from sea level is 644 metres, or 2,113 feet. GeoNames reads 611 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

574 m – 1,299 m

Mean 880 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 725 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 26

among the towns of Cartago, and 124th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

9.5 km to the NW, at 685 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through La Suiza

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 Suiza; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,920268WE28.5 km
West to east: from 963 m at 14 km west to 844 m at 14 km east.
1,920268NS28.5 km
North to south: from 403 m at 14 km north to 1,621 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around La Suiza, 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 Suiza

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Turrialba 9.5 kmNW 685 m (2,247 ft) +41 m
Pejibaye 10.8 kmW 767 m (2,516 ft) +123 m
Tucurrique 11.8 kmW 745 m (2,444 ft) +101 m
Dulce Nombre 15.4 kmN 903 m (2,963 ft) +259 m
Juan Viñas 15.6 kmW 1,172 m (3,845 ft) +528 m

Where La Suiza is

Latitude 9.852333, longitude -83.61351. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Suiza elevation: 644 m (2,113 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 Suiza'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 611 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.