Elevation of La Esperanza, Copán, Honduras

La Esperanza, Copán, Honduras is 760 m (2,493 ft) above sea level.

La Esperanza's height from sea level is 760 metres, or 2,493 feet. GeoNames reads 775 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

481 m – 1,107 m

Mean 761 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 626 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 41

among the towns of Copán, and 176th of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

1.7 km to the SW, at 889 m, 129 m higher.

Cross-section through La Esperanza

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 Esperanza; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,447162WE28.3 km
West to east: from 975 m at 14 km west to 775 m at 14 km east.
1,447162NS28.3 km
North to south: from 328 m at 14 km north to 1,175 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around La Esperanza, 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 Esperanza

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nueva Armenia 1.7 kmSW 889 m (2,917 ft) +129 m
Río Amarillo 10.1 kmS 701 m (2,300 ft) −59 m
El Paraíso 12.2 kmE 585 m (1,919 ft) −175 m
Buenos Aires 13.9 kmE 760 m (2,493 ft) same
La Playona 14.8 kmNE 204 m (669 ft) −556 m

Where La Esperanza is

Latitude 15.05046, longitude -89.097992. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Esperanza elevation: 760 m (2,493 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 Esperanza'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 775 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.