Elevation of Mercedes, San José, Costa Rica

Mercedes, San José, Costa Rica is 583 m (1,913 ft) above sea level.

Mercedes's height from sea level is 583 metres, or 1,913 feet. GeoNames reads 598 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 597 m.

Ground within 5 km

424 m – 902 m

Mean 620 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 478 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

54th of 55

among the towns of San José, and 127th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

Daniel Flores

12.2 km to the NW, at 634 m, 51 m higher.

Cross-section through Mercedes

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mercedes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 814 m at 14 km west to 801 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,522 m at 14 km north to 660 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mercedes, 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 Mercedes

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Daniel Flores	12.2 km	NW	634 m (2,080 ft)	+51 m
Trinidad	16.8 km	S	725 m (2,379 ft)	+142 m
San Isidro	17.7 km	NW	695 m (2,280 ft)	+112 m
Guaycará (Puntarenas)	27.4 km	E	634 m (2,080 ft)	+51 m
Buenos Aires (Puntarenas)	29.4 km	E	379 m (1,243 ft)	−204 m

Peaks and passes near Mercedes

Cerro Ventisqueros, peak at 3,812 m (12,507 ft), 24.1 km to the N — 3,229 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 9.27, longitude -83.58. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 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 598 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.