Elevation of Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Nicoya, Guanacaste, Costa Rica is 136 m (446 ft) above sea level.

Nicoya's height from sea level is 136 metres, or 446 feet. GeoNames reads 128 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

80 m – 483 m

Mean 222 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 403 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 16

among the towns of Guanacaste, and 158th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

10.5 km to the S, at 350 m, 214 m higher.

Cross-section through Nicoya

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 Nicoya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

772-32WE28.5 km
West to east: from 522 m at 14 km west to 24 m at 14 km east.
772-32NS28.5 km
North to south: from 34 m at 14 km north to 253 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Nicoya, 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 Nicoya

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hojancha 10.5 kmS 350 m (1,148 ft) +214 m
Santa Cruz 19.2 kmNW 64 m (210 ft) −72 m
Nandayure 30.3 kmSE 10 m (33 ft) −126 m
Sámara 30.4 kmS 5 m (16 ft) −131 m
Belén 32.6 kmNW 40 m (131 ft) −96 m

Where Nicoya is

Latitude 10.14466, longitude -85.452271. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Nicoya elevation: 136 m (446 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 Nicoya'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 128 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.