Elevation of Zaruma, El Oro, Ecuador

Zaruma, El Oro, Ecuador is 1,254 m (4,114 ft) above sea level.

Zaruma's height from sea level is 1,254 metres, or 4,114 feet. GeoNames reads 1,056 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,200 m.

Ground within 5 km

659 m – 1,597 m

Mean 993 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 938 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 9

among the towns of El Oro, and 35th of 116 in Ecuador.

Nearest town

3.8 km to the S, at 672 m, 582 m lower.

Cross-section through Zaruma

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Zaruma; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,162584WE28.7 km
West to east: from 926 m at 14 km west to 1,519 m at 14 km east.
2,162584NS28.7 km
North to south: from 1,588 m at 14 km north to 1,160 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Zaruma, 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 Zaruma

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Portovelo 3.8 kmS 672 m (2,205 ft) −582 m
Piñas 7.8 kmW 1,084 m (3,556 ft) −170 m
Puebloviejo (Los Ríos) 37 kmE 2,865 m (9,400 ft) +1,611 m

Where Zaruma is

Latitude -3.6873033, longitude -79.6109049. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Zaruma elevation: 1,254 m (4,114 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 Zaruma'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 1,056 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.