Elevation of Chalatenango, El Salvador

Chalatenango, El Salvador is 398 m (1,306 ft) above sea level.

Chalatenango's height from sea level is 398 metres, or 1,306 feet. GeoNames reads 400 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 400 m.

Ground within 5 km

273 m – 952 m

Mean 477 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 679 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Chalatenango, and 60th of 107 in El Salvador.

Nearest town

Suchitoto

14.8 km to the SW, at 360 m, 38 m lower.

Cross-section through Chalatenango

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chalatenango; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 237 m at 14 km west to 224 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 866 m at 14 km north to 484 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Chalatenango, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Chalatenango

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Suchitoto (Cuscatlán)	14.8 km	SW	360 m (1,181 ft)	−38 m
San Francisco Morazán	18.9 km	NW	587 m (1,926 ft)	+189 m
Tenancingo (Cuscatlán)	23.3 km	S	592 m (1,942 ft)	+194 m
La Virtud (Honduras)	26.7 km	E	278 m (912 ft)	−120 m
San Martín (San Salvador)	27.7 km	S	635 m (2,083 ft)	+237 m

Where Chalatenango is

Latitude 14.03906, longitude -88.941369. 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 Chalatenango'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 400 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.