Elevation of Mercedes, Heredia, Costa Rica
Mercedes, Heredia, Costa Rica is 1,140 m (3,740 ft) above sea level.
Mercedes's height from sea level is 1,140 metres, or 3,740 feet. GeoNames reads 1,118 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 5 km
Mean 1,182 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 711 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Mercedes
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 Mercedes; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Mercedes
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Roque | 0.7 km | NW | 1,110 m (3,642 ft) | −30 m |
| Barva | 1.6 km | NE | 1,163 m (3,816 ft) | +23 m |
| San Francisco | 2 km | S | 1,126 m (3,694 ft) | −14 m |
| San Joaquín | 2.1 km | W | 1,054 m (3,458 ft) | −86 m |
| Llorente | 2.3 km | SW | 1,069 m (3,507 ft) | −71 m |
Peaks and passes near Mercedes
- Volcán Barva, volcano at 2,906 m (9,534 ft), 14.1 km to the N — 1,766 m above the town.
- Volcán Poás, volcano at 2,708 m (8,885 ft), 23.3 km to the NW — 1,568 m above the town.
- Cerro Rabo de Mico, peak at 2,428 m (7,966 ft), 18.1 km to the S — 1,288 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Mercedes is
Latitude 10.010267, longitude -84.132019. 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 Mercedes'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 1,118 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.