Elevation of San Alejo, La Unión, El Salvador

San Alejo, La Unión, El Salvador is 195 m (640 ft) above sea level.

San Alejo's height from sea level is 195 metres, or 640 feet. GeoNames reads 177 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

50 m – 498 m

Mean 217 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 448 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 8

among the towns of La Unión, and 84th of 107 in El Salvador.

Nearest town

16.5 km to the SE, at 50 m, 145 m lower.

Cross-section through San Alejo

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is San Alejo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

525-37WE28.4 km
West to east: from 96 m at 14 km west to 4 m at 14 km east.
525-37NS28.4 km
North to south: from 147 m at 14 km north to 165 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around San Alejo, 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 Alejo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
La Unión 16.5 kmSE 50 m (164 ft) −145 m
Conchagua 17.6 kmSE 297 m (974 ft) +102 m
Pasaquina 21.3 kmNE 53 m (174 ft) −142 m
Jocoro (Morazán) 21.4 kmN 236 m (774 ft) +41 m
Santa Rosa de Lima 22.8 kmN 116 m (381 ft) −79 m

Peaks and passes near San Alejo

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

Where San Alejo is

Latitude 13.430567, longitude -87.958671. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Alejo elevation: 195 m (640 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 Alejo'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 177 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.