Elevation of San Carlos Alzatate, Jalapa, Guatemala

San Carlos Alzatate, Jalapa, Guatemala is 1,785 m (5,856 ft) above sea level.

San Carlos Alzatate's height from sea level is 1,785 metres, or 5,856 feet. GeoNames reads 1,767 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,720 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,357 m – 2,479 m

Mean 1,876 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 1,122 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 7

among the towns of Jalapa, and 99th of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

12.4 km to the W, at 1,367 m, 418 m lower.

Cross-section through San Carlos Alzatate

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 San Carlos Alzatate; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,570987WE28.3 km
West to east: from 1,616 m at 14 km west to 1,097 m at 14 km east.
2,570987NS28.3 km
North to south: from 1,869 m at 14 km north to 1,670 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around San Carlos Alzatate, 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 San Carlos Alzatate

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Rafael las Flores (Santa Rosa) 12.4 kmW 1,367 m (4,485 ft) −418 m
Mataquescuintla 13.9 kmW 1,619 m (5,312 ft) −166 m
Jalapa 16.9 kmNE 1,374 m (4,508 ft) −411 m
Monjas 20.2 kmE 962 m (3,156 ft) −823 m
Casillas (Santa Rosa) 21.8 kmSW 1,088 m (3,570 ft) −697 m

Peaks and passes near San Carlos Alzatate

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

Where San Carlos Alzatate is

Latitude 14.4970724, longitude -90.0594962. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Carlos Alzatate elevation: 1,785 m (5,856 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 Carlos Alzatate'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 1,767 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.