Elevation of Limón, Costa Rica

Limón, Costa Rica is 10 m (33 ft) above sea level.

Limón's height from sea level is 10 metres, or 33 feet. GeoNames reads 29 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Puerto Limón.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 68 m

Mean 11 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 68 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 14

among the towns of Limón, and 190th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Matina

28.8 km to the W, at 10 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Limón

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 Limón; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 132 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 150 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Limón, 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 Limón

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Matina	28.8 km	W	10 m (33 ft)	same
Valle la Estrella	29.3 km	S	36 m (118 ft)	+26 m
Cahuita	34.9 km	SE	10 m (33 ft)	same
Batán	35.1 km	W	15 m (49 ft)	+5 m

Where Limón is

Latitude 9.989424, longitude -83.037394. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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<a href="https://www.altitude-maps.com/city/49_75,Limon,Limon,Costa+Rica"><img src="https://www.altitude-maps.com/embed/49_75.svg" width="240" height="60" alt="Limón elevation: 10 m (33 ft) above sea level"></a>

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Limón'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 29 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.