Elevation of Orotina, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Orotina, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 236 m (774 ft) above sea level.

Orotina's height from sea level is 236 metres, or 774 feet. GeoNames reads 237 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

76 m – 624 m

Mean 225 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 548 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

35th of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 147th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

2.9 km to the N, at 253 m, 17 m higher.

Cross-section through Orotina

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 Orotina; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,041-29WE28.5 km
West to east: from 65 m at 14 km west to 541 m at 14 km east.
1,041-29NS28.5 km
North to south: from 886 m at 14 km north to 361 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Orotina, 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 Orotina

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Mateo 2.9 kmN 253 m (830 ft) +17 m
Mastate 4.5 kmW 185 m (607 ft) −51 m
Desemparados 5 kmNE 336 m (1,102 ft) +100 m
San Pablo (San José) 9.2 kmE 423 m (1,388 ft) +187 m
Palmar (Puntarenas) 9.3 kmSE 310 m (1,017 ft) +74 m

Peaks and passes near Orotina

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

Where Orotina is

Latitude 9.9111111, longitude -84.5222222. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Orotina elevation: 236 m (774 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 Orotina'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 237 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.