Elevation of Colomba, Quezaltenango, Guatemala

Colomba, Quezaltenango, Guatemala is 979 m (3,212 ft) above sea level.

Colomba's height from sea level is 979 metres, or 3,212 feet. GeoNames reads 1,011 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,011 m.

Ground within 5 km

662 m – 1,420 m

Mean 949 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 758 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 21

among the towns of Quezaltenango, and 195th of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

11.4 km to the NW, at 910 m, 69 m lower.

Cross-section through Colomba

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 Colomba; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,260163WE28.3 km
West to east: from 502 m at 14 km west to 1,035 m at 14 km east.
2,260163NS28.3 km
North to south: from 1,884 m at 14 km north to 308 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Colomba, 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 Colomba

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
El Quetzal (San Marcos) 11.4 kmNW 910 m (2,986 ft) −69 m
Flores Costa Cuca 11.6 kmSW 543 m (1,781 ft) −436 m
El Asintal (Retalhuleu) 12 kmS 424 m (1,391 ft) −555 m
Nuevo San Carlos (Retalhuleu) 13.4 kmS 375 m (1,230 ft) −604 m
San Martín Sacatepéquez 14.3 kmNE 2,431 m (7,976 ft) +1,452 m

Peaks and passes near Colomba

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

Where Colomba is

Latitude 14.7077484, longitude -91.7319828. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Colomba elevation: 979 m (3,212 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 Colomba'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 1,011 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.