Elevation of La Brea, Colón, Honduras

La Brea, Colón, Honduras is 41 m (135 ft) above sea level.

La Brea's height from sea level is 41 metres, or 135 feet. GeoNames reads 45 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

23 m – 271 m

Mean 71 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 248 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 28

among the towns of Colón, and 500th of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

3.5 km to the E, at 46 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through La Brea

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 La Brea; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,050-78WE28.2 km
West to east: from 130 m at 14 km west to 15 m at 14 km east.
1,050-78NS28.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 55 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around La Brea, 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 La Brea

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Quebrada de Arena 3.5 kmE 46 m (151 ft) +5 m
Salamá 3.9 kmSW 53 m (174 ft) +12 m
Taujica 11.4 kmSE 38 m (125 ft) −3 m
Trujillo 13.2 kmN 72 m (236 ft) +31 m
Santa Fe 15.5 kmNW 0 m (0 ft) −41 m

Where La Brea is

Latitude 15.7976341, longitude -85.9662154. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Brea elevation: 41 m (135 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 La Brea'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 45 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.