Elevation of Silca, Olancho, Honduras

Silca, Olancho, Honduras is 657 m (2,156 ft) above sea level.

Silca's height from sea level is 657 metres, or 2,156 feet. GeoNames reads 790 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 626 m.

Ground within 5 km

552 m – 1,090 m

Mean 727 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 538 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 36

among the towns of Olancho, and 242nd of 591 in Honduras.

Nearest town

5.7 km to the W, at 721 m, 64 m higher.

Cross-section through Silca

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 Silca; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,205497WE28.3 km
West to east: from 846 m at 14 km west to 546 m at 14 km east.
1,205497NS28.3 km
North to south: from 923 m at 14 km north to 910 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Silca, 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 Silca

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Salamá 5.7 kmW 721 m (2,365 ft) +64 m
Manto 19.6 kmNE 642 m (2,106 ft) −15 m
El Rosario 20.2 kmNW 763 m (2,503 ft) +106 m
Guarizama 26 kmE 644 m (2,113 ft) −13 m
Sabana Abajo 26.4 kmS 661 m (2,169 ft) +4 m

Where Silca is

Latitude 14.83, longitude -86.53. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Silca elevation: 657 m (2,156 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 Silca'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 790 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.