Elevation of Mata de Plátano, San José, Costa Rica

Mata de Plátano, San José, Costa Rica is 1,355 m (4,446 ft) above sea level.

Mata de Plátano's height from sea level is 1,355 metres, or 4,446 feet. GeoNames reads 1,300 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,172 m – 1,696 m

Mean 1,371 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 524 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 55

among the towns of San José, and 28th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Ipís

1.7 km to the N, at 1,360 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Mata de Plátano

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 Mata de Plátano; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,004 m at 14 km west to 2,653 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,265 m at 14 km north to 1,618 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mata de Plátano, 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 Mata de Plátano

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Ipís	1.7 km	N	1,360 m (4,462 ft)	+5 m
Purral	2.3 km	W	1,276 m (4,186 ft)	−79 m
San Rafael Montes de Oca	2.3 km	SE	1,429 m (4,688 ft)	+74 m
Sabanilla	2.3 km	SW	1,288 m (4,226 ft)	−67 m
San Ramón (Cartago)	2.5 km	SE	1,419 m (4,656 ft)	+64 m

Peaks and passes near Mata de Plátano

Volcán Irazú, volcano at 3,432 m (11,260 ft), 18.1 km to the E — 2,077 m above the town.
Volcán Barva, volcano at 2,906 m (9,534 ft), 22.5 km to the NW — 1,551 m above the town.
Cerro Pico Alto, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 17.7 km to the SW — 1,073 m above the town.

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

Where Mata de Plátano is

Latitude 9.9539113, longitude -84.01195. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Mata de Plátano'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 1,300 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.