Elevation of Poptún, Petén, Guatemala

Poptún, Petén, Guatemala is 513 m (1,683 ft) above sea level.

Poptún's height from sea level is 513 metres, or 1,683 feet. GeoNames reads 533 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 536 m.

Ground within 5 km

458 m – 572 m

Mean 514 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 114 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 12

among the towns of Petén, and 243rd of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

14.4 km to the S, at 395 m, 118 m lower.

Cross-section through Poptún

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Poptún; the vertical scale is the same on both.

689346WE28.2 km
West to east: from 370 m at 14 km west to 665 m at 14 km east.
689346NS28.2 km
North to south: from 468 m at 14 km north to 398 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Poptún, 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 Poptún

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Luis 14.4 kmS 395 m (1,296 ft) −118 m
Dolores 20.8 kmN 427 m (1,401 ft) −86 m

Where Poptún is

Latitude 16.327351, longitude -89.422783. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Poptún elevation: 513 m (1,683 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 Poptún'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 533 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.