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Elevation of San José, Copán, Honduras

San José, Copán, Honduras is 712 m (2,336 ft) above sea level.

San José's height from sea level is 712 metres, or 2,336 feet. GeoNames reads 677 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 798 m.

Also written: San José de Copán.

Ground within 5 km

551 m – 1,154 m

Mean 801 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 603 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 41

among the towns of Copán, and 204th of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

Vivistorio

2.5 km to the W, at 730 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through San José

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 San José; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,452466WE28.3 km
West to east: from 892 m at 14 km west to 678 m at 14 km east.
1,452466NS28.3 km
North to south: from 679 m at 14 km north to 883 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around San José, 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 San José

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Vivistorio 2.5 kmW 730 m (2,395 ft) +18 m
Quezailica 2.8 kmS 658 m (2,159 ft) −54 m
Veracruz 5.4 kmW 861 m (2,825 ft) +149 m
Trinidad de Copán 5.7 kmNW 883 m (2,897 ft) +171 m
Naranjito (Santa Bárbara) 6.4 kmNE 936 m (3,071 ft) +224 m

Where San José is

Latitude 14.9, longitude -88.7166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San José elevation: 712 m (2,336 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 San José'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 677 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.