Elevation of El Paraíso, Copán, Honduras

El Paraíso, Copán, Honduras is 585 m (1,919 ft) above sea level.

El Paraíso's height from sea level is 585 metres, or 1,919 feet. GeoNames reads 612 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 615 m.

Ground within 5 km

475 m – 1,289 m

Mean 723 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 814 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

34th of 41

among the towns of Copán, and 274th of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

Buenos Aires

1.8 km to the E, at 760 m, 175 m higher.

Cross-section through El Paraíso

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 Paraíso; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 889 m at 14 km west to 572 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 188 m at 14 km north to 818 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around El Paraíso, 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 Paraíso

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Buenos Aires	1.8 km	E	760 m (2,493 ft)	+175 m
San Joaquín	9.7 km	E	1,219 m (3,999 ft)	+634 m
La Playona	10.3 km	N	204 m (669 ft)	−381 m
El Ocotón	11.8 km	E	636 m (2,087 ft)	+51 m
La Esperanza	12.2 km	W	760 m (2,493 ft)	+175 m

Where El Paraíso is

Latitude 15.0271981, longitude -88.9868532. 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 Paraíso'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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.