Elevation of Chisec, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala

Chisec, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala is 231 m (758 ft) above sea level.

Chisec's height from sea level is 231 metres, or 758 feet. GeoNames reads 223 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 250 m.

Ground within 5 km

198 m – 602 m

Mean 285 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 404 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 16

among the towns of Alta Verapaz, and 287th of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

37.8 km to the S, at 1,312 m, 1,081 m higher.

Cross-section through Chisec

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 Chisec; the vertical scale is the same on both.

612167WE28.2 km
West to east: from 364 m at 14 km west to 471 m at 14 km east.
612167NS28.2 km
North to south: from 207 m at 14 km north to 464 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Chisec, 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 Chisec

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Pedro Carchá 37.8 kmS 1,312 m (4,304 ft) +1,081 m
Cobán 39 kmS 1,319 m (4,327 ft) +1,088 m

Where Chisec is

Latitude 15.81257, longitude -90.288391. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chisec elevation: 231 m (758 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 Chisec'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 223 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.