Elevation of El Quetzal, San Marcos, Guatemala
El Quetzal, San Marcos, Guatemala is 910 m (2,986 ft) above sea level.
El Quetzal's height from sea level is 910 metres, or 2,986 feet. GeoNames reads 941 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 940 m.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 881 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 787 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through El Quetzal
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 El Quetzal; 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 El Quetzal
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Reforma | 3.7 km | N | 1,131 m (3,711 ft) | +221 m |
| Coatepeque (Quezaltenango) | 9.4 km | SW | 492 m (1,614 ft) | −418 m |
| Colomba (Quezaltenango) | 11.4 km | SE | 979 m (3,212 ft) | +69 m |
| Nuevo Progreso | 11.5 km | W | 635 m (2,083 ft) | −275 m |
| Flores Costa Cuca (Quezaltenango) | 12.8 km | S | 543 m (1,781 ft) | −367 m |
Peaks and passes near El Quetzal
- Volcán Siete Orejas, volcano at 3,370 m (11,056 ft), 22 km to the E — 2,460 m above the town.
- Volcán Chiquibal, volcano at 2,900 m (9,514 ft), 17.5 km to the E — 1,990 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where El Quetzal is
Latitude 14.7690585, longitude -91.8165975. 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 El Quetzal'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 941 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.