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Elevation of San Nicolás, Copán, Honduras

San Nicolás, Copán, Honduras is 748 m (2,454 ft) above sea level.

San Nicolás's height from sea level is 748 metres, or 2,454 feet. GeoNames reads 699 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 632 m.

Ground within 5 km

514 m – 1,281 m

Mean 796 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 767 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

22nd of 41

among the towns of Copán, and 183rd of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

Pueblo Nuevo

2.1 km to the W, at 725 m, 23 m lower.

Cross-section through San Nicolás

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 Nicolás; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,343354WE28.3 km
West to east: from 630 m at 14 km west to 641 m at 14 km east.
1,343354NS28.3 km
North to south: from 572 m at 14 km north to 658 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around San Nicolás, 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 Nicolás

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pueblo Nuevo 2.1 kmW 725 m (2,379 ft) −23 m
Trinidad de Copán 6.2 kmS 883 m (2,897 ft) +135 m
La Entrada 6.9 kmN 497 m (1,631 ft) −251 m
Naranjito (Santa Bárbara) 7.2 kmSE 936 m (3,071 ft) +188 m
La Jigua 8.5 kmNW 521 m (1,709 ft) −227 m

Where San Nicolás is

Latitude 15.0003674, longitude -88.7319573. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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San Nicolás elevation: 748 m (2,454 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 Nicolás'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 699 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.