Elevation of Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala

Jacaltenango, Huehuetenango, Guatemala is 1,339 m (4,393 ft) above sea level.

Jacaltenango's height from sea level is 1,339 metres, or 4,393 feet. GeoNames reads 1,459 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,437 m.

Ground within 5 km

913 m – 2,234 m

Mean 1,657 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 1,321 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 31

among the towns of Huehuetenango, and 157th of 328 in Guatemala.

Nearest town

6.1 km to the W, at 1,300 m, 39 m lower.

Cross-section through Jacaltenango

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 Jacaltenango; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,807735WE28.2 km
West to east: from 1,156 m at 14 km west to 2,191 m at 14 km east.
2,807735NS28.2 km
North to south: from 1,150 m at 14 km north to 1,656 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Jacaltenango, 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 Jacaltenango

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Antonio Huista 6.1 kmW 1,300 m (4,265 ft) −39 m
Concepción 6.9 kmSE 2,314 m (7,592 ft) +975 m
Santa Ana Huista 11.4 kmW 791 m (2,595 ft) −548 m
San Miguel Acatán 12.8 kmE 1,819 m (5,968 ft) +480 m
Nentón 15.6 kmN 838 m (2,749 ft) −501 m

Where Jacaltenango is

Latitude 15.6668563, longitude -91.7125264. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Jacaltenango elevation: 1,339 m (4,393 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 Jacaltenango'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 1,459 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.