Elevation of Paraíso, Cartago, Costa Rica
Paraíso, Cartago, Costa Rica is 1,333 m (4,373 ft) above sea level.
Paraíso's height from sea level is 1,333 metres, or 4,373 feet. GeoNames reads 1,306 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 5 km
Mean 1,338 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 654 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Paraíso
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 Paraíso; the vertical scale is the same on both.

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 Paraíso
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orosi | 4.8 km | S | 1,070 m (3,510 ft) | −263 m |
| San Juan | 5.2 km | E | 1,003 m (3,291 ft) | −330 m |
| Aguacaliente | 5.4 km | W | 1,347 m (4,419 ft) | +14 m |
| Cartago | 6.2 km | W | 1,399 m (4,590 ft) | +66 m |
| Cot | 6.5 km | N | 1,827 m (5,994 ft) | +494 m |
Peaks and passes near Paraíso
- Volcán Irazú, volcano at 3,432 m (11,260 ft), 16.1 km to the N — 2,099 m above the town.
- Volcán Turrialba, volcano at 3,340 m (10,958 ft), 23.5 km to the NE — 2,007 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Paraíso is
Latitude 9.838646, longitude -83.8675839. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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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 Paraíso'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 1,306 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.