Elevation of Catarina, San Marcos, Guatemala

Catarina, San Marcos, Guatemala is 229 m (751 ft) above sea level.

Catarina's height from sea level is 229 metres, or 751 feet. GeoNames reads 232 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 203 m.

Ground within 5 km

115 m – 426 m

Mean 237 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 311 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 29

among the towns of San Marcos, and 288th of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

Malacatán

6.8 km to the N, at 397 m, 168 m higher.

Cross-section through Catarina

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 Catarina; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 126 m at 14 km west to 749 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 472 m at 14 km north to 52 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Catarina, 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 Catarina

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Malacatán	6.8 km	N	397 m (1,302 ft)	+168 m
San Pablo	12.1 km	NE	663 m (2,175 ft)	+434 m
El Rodeo	12.6 km	NE	683 m (2,241 ft)	+454 m
Pajapita	14.4 km	S	84 m (276 ft)	−145 m
El Tumbador	15.4 km	E	929 m (3,048 ft)	+700 m

Where Catarina is

Latitude 14.85369, longitude -92.0761179. 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 Catarina'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 232 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.