Elevation of La Encarnación, Ocotepeque, Honduras

La Encarnación, Ocotepeque, Honduras is 958 m (3,143 ft) above sea level.

La Encarnación's height from sea level is 958 metres, or 3,143 feet. GeoNames reads 876 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 998 m.

Ground within 5 km

831 m – 1,832 m

Mean 1,232 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 1,001 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 22

among the towns of Ocotepeque, and 110th of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

4.7 km to the NW, at 1,079 m, 121 m higher.

Cross-section through La Encarnación

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

2,111652WE28.3 km
West to east: from 973 m at 14 km west to 1,164 m at 14 km east.
2,111652NS28.3 km
North to south: from 1,201 m at 14 km north to 1,387 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around La Encarnación, 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 Encarnación

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
San Fernando 4.7 kmNW 1,079 m (3,540 ft) +121 m
Santa Cruz (Copán) 13.7 kmNE 1,051 m (3,448 ft) +93 m
El Corpus (Copán) 19.2 kmE 736 m (2,415 ft) −222 m
Lucerna 19.7 kmSE 856 m (2,808 ft) −102 m
La Union (Copán) 20 kmE 751 m (2,464 ft) −207 m

Where La Encarnación is

Latitude 14.6666667, longitude -89.0833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Encarnación elevation: 958 m (3,143 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 Encarnación'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 876 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.