Elevation of San Rafael la Independencia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala
San Rafael la Independencia, Huehuetenango, Guatemala is 2,469 m (8,100 ft) above sea level.
San Rafael la Independencia's height from sea level is 2,469 metres, or 8,100 feet. GeoNames reads 2,518 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2,490 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 2,555 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 1,183 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through San Rafael la Independencia
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 San Rafael la Independencia; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Rafael la Independencia
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Sebastián Coatán | 4.6 km | NW | 2,348 m (7,703 ft) | −121 m |
| San Miguel Acatán | 7 km | W | 1,819 m (5,968 ft) | −650 m |
| Santa Eulalia | 8.5 km | E | 2,673 m (8,770 ft) | +204 m |
| Soloma | 12.8 km | SE | 2,301 m (7,549 ft) | −168 m |
| San Juan Ixcoy | 15 km | SE | 2,214 m (7,264 ft) | −255 m |
Where San Rafael la Independencia is
Latitude 15.7048259, longitude -91.5341785. 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 Rafael la Independencia'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 2,518 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.