Elevation of San Miguel Chicaj, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala

San Miguel Chicaj, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala is 940 m (3,084 ft) above sea level.

San Miguel Chicaj's height from sea level is 940 metres, or 3,084 feet. GeoNames reads 943 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 944 m.

Ground within 5 km

897 m – 1,697 m

Mean 1,141 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 800 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 8

among the towns of Baja Verapaz, and 207th of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

Salamá

8.9 km to the E, at 946 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through San Miguel Chicaj

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 Miguel Chicaj; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 999 m at 14 km west to 1,112 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,271 m at 14 km north to 1,529 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around San Miguel Chicaj, 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 Miguel Chicaj

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Salamá	8.9 km	E	946 m (3,104 ft)	+6 m
Rabinal	10 km	W	968 m (3,176 ft)	+28 m
San Jerónimo	17.1 km	E	996 m (3,268 ft)	+56 m
El Chol	17.9 km	SW	1,043 m (3,422 ft)	+103 m
Purulhá	23.4 km	NE	1,584 m (5,197 ft)	+644 m

Where San Miguel Chicaj is

Latitude 15.0933937, longitude -90.3960275. 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 San Miguel Chicaj'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 943 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.