Elevation of Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala

Santa Catarina Palopó, Sololá, Guatemala is 1,570 m (5,151 ft) above sea level.

Santa Catarina Palopó's height from sea level is 1,570 metres, or 5,151 feet. GeoNames reads 1,591 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,662 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,556 m – 2,350 m

Mean 1,822 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 794 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

16th of 19

among the towns of Sololá, and 122nd of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

San Andrés Semetabaj

3.2 km to the N, at 1,976 m, 406 m higher.

Cross-section through Santa Catarina Palopó

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 Santa Catarina Palopó; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,564 m at 14 km west to 2,140 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,650 m at 14 km north to 1,454 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Santa Catarina Palopó, 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 Santa Catarina Palopó

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
San Andrés Semetabaj	3.2 km	N	1,976 m (6,483 ft)	+406 m
Panajachel	3.5 km	NW	1,560 m (5,118 ft)	−10 m
San Antonio Palopó	4 km	SE	1,856 m (6,089 ft)	+286 m
Concepción	7 km	N	2,076 m (6,811 ft)	+506 m
Sololá	7.4 km	NW	2,126 m (6,975 ft)	+556 m

Peaks and passes near Santa Catarina Palopó

Volcán Atitlán, volcano at 3,535 m (11,598 ft), 16.3 km to the S — 1,965 m above the town.
Volcán Tolimán, volcano at 3,158 m (10,361 ft), 12.8 km to the SW — 1,588 m above the town.
Volcán San Pedro, volcano at 3,020 m (9,908 ft), 16 km to the SW — 1,450 m above the town.

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

Where Santa Catarina Palopó is

Latitude 14.720901, longitude -91.133503. 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 Santa Catarina Palopó'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 1,591 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.