Elevation of El Zapote, Cortés, Honduras

El Zapote, Cortés, Honduras is 454 m (1,490 ft) above sea level.

El Zapote's height from sea level is 454 metres, or 1,490 feet. GeoNames reads 410 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

317 m – 762 m

Mean 488 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 445 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 89

among the towns of Cortés, and 317th of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

6 km to the SW, at 447 m, 7 m lower.

Cross-section through El Zapote

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 Zapote; the vertical scale is the same on both.

760103WE28.3 km
West to east: from 235 m at 14 km west to 381 m at 14 km east.
760103NS28.3 km
North to south: from 162 m at 14 km north to 515 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around El Zapote, 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 Zapote

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Santa Cruz de Yojoa 6 kmSW 447 m (1,467 ft) −7 m
El Olivar 7.4 kmNW 275 m (902 ft) −179 m
Oropéndolas 9.7 kmW 149 m (489 ft) −305 m
El Ocotillo 11.6 kmSW 567 m (1,860 ft) +113 m
San Isidro 11.9 kmS 667 m (2,188 ft) +213 m

Where El Zapote is

Latitude 15.02, longitude -87.85. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Zapote elevation: 454 m (1,490 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 Zapote'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 410 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.