Elevation of El Benque, El Paraíso, Honduras

El Benque, El Paraíso, Honduras is 537 m (1,762 ft) above sea level.

El Benque's height from sea level is 537 metres, or 1,762 feet. GeoNames reads 563 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

470 m – 1,288 m

Mean 690 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 818 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 28

among the towns of El Paraíso, and 294th of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

2.9 km to the NE, at 522 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through El Benque

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 Benque; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,126392WE28.3 km
West to east: from 847 m at 14 km west to 492 m at 14 km east.
1,126392NS28.3 km
North to south: from 1,008 m at 14 km north to 648 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around El Benque, 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 El Benque

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Diego 2.9 kmNE 522 m (1,713 ft) −15 m
El Obraje 4.8 kmSE 554 m (1,818 ft) +17 m
Jutiapa 8.9 kmSE 476 m (1,562 ft) −61 m
Danli 11 kmW 765 m (2,510 ft) +228 m
Ojo de Agua 12.7 kmE 542 m (1,778 ft) +5 m

Where El Benque is

Latitude 14.033333, longitude -86.466667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Benque elevation: 537 m (1,762 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 El Benque'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 563 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.