Elevation of Palmares, Alajuela, Costa Rica

Palmares, Alajuela, Costa Rica is 1,023 m (3,356 ft) above sea level.

Palmares's height from sea level is 1,023 metres, or 3,356 feet. GeoNames reads 1,019 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

873 m – 1,440 m

Mean 1,083 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 567 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 43

among the towns of Alajuela, and 97th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

2 km to the E, at 1,002 m, 21 m lower.

Cross-section through Palmares

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 Palmares; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,390357WE28.5 km
West to east: from 725 m at 14 km west to 949 m at 14 km east.
1,390357NS28.5 km
North to south: from 1,313 m at 14 km north to 429 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Palmares, 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 Palmares

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Esquipulas 2 kmE 1,002 m (3,287 ft) −21 m
San Rafael 2.6 kmNW 1,051 m (3,448 ft) +28 m
San Ramón 4.6 kmNW 1,060 m (3,478 ft) +37 m
San Roque 4.9 kmN 1,058 m (3,471 ft) +35 m
Santiago 5.4 kmW 1,085 m (3,560 ft) +62 m

Where Palmares is

Latitude 10.0608749, longitude -84.4377959. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Palmares elevation: 1,023 m (3,356 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 Palmares'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 1,019 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.