Elevation of Palmichal, San José, Costa Rica

Palmichal, San José, Costa Rica is 1,120 m (3,675 ft) above sea level.

Palmichal's height from sea level is 1,120 metres, or 3,675 feet. GeoNames reads 1,098 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

604 m – 1,910 m

Mean 1,151 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,306 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

38th of 55

among the towns of San José, and 74th of 199 in Costa Rica.

Nearest town

5.9 km to the SE, at 1,033 m, 87 m lower.

Cross-section through Palmichal

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 Palmichal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,161519WE28.5 km
West to east: from 1,069 m at 14 km west to 1,541 m at 14 km east.
2,161519NS28.5 km
North to south: from 847 m at 14 km north to 1,467 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Palmichal, 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 Palmichal

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Ignacio 5.9 kmSE 1,033 m (3,389 ft) −87 m
Salitral 8.6 kmN 1,045 m (3,428 ft) −75 m
San Rafael Abajo 8.7 kmW 696 m (2,283 ft) −424 m
Vuelta de Jorco 8.9 kmSE 1,283 m (4,209 ft) +163 m
Colón 9.1 kmNW 792 m (2,598 ft) −328 m

Peaks and passes near Palmichal

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

Where Palmichal is

Latitude 9.837894, longitude -84.20237. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Palmichal elevation: 1,120 m (3,675 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 Palmichal'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 1,098 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.