Elevation of Copán, Honduras
Copán, Honduras is 651 m (2,136 ft) above sea level.
Copán's height from sea level is 651 metres, or 2,136 feet. GeoNames reads 612 m at the same point (SRTM).
Also written: Copán Ruinas Ruinas de Copán.
Ground within 5 km
Mean 789 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 530 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Copán
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 Copán; 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 Copán
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ostumán | 2.2 km | SW | 596 m (1,955 ft) | −55 m |
| San Antonio | 6.3 km | SW | 678 m (2,224 ft) | +27 m |
| Santa Rita | 6.7 km | E | 701 m (2,300 ft) | +50 m |
| Río Amarillo | 13.6 km | N | 701 m (2,300 ft) | +50 m |
| San Fernando (Ocotepeque) | 17.9 km | S | 1,079 m (3,540 ft) | +428 m |
Where Copán is
Latitude 14.8468506, longitude -89.1586932. 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 Copán'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 612 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.