Elevation of San Cristóbal, Galápagos, Ecuador

San Cristóbal, Galápagos, Ecuador is 321 m (1,053 ft) above sea level.

San Cristóbal's height from sea level is 321 metres, or 1,053 feet. GeoNames reads 321 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 609 m

Mean 206 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 609 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 3

among the towns of Galápagos, and 52nd of 116 in Ecuador.

Nearest town

5.8 km to the W, at 13 m, 308 m lower.

Cross-section through San Cristóbal

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Cristóbal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

602-45WE28.8 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 168 m at 14 km east.
602-45NS28.8 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Cristóbal, 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 San Cristóbal

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno 5.8 kmW 13 m (43 ft) −308 m

Where San Cristóbal is

Latitude -0.9080206, longitude -89.5568382. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Cristóbal elevation: 321 m (1,053 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 San Cristóbal'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 321 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.