Elevation of Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina

Chilecito, La Rioja, Argentina is 1,143 m (3,750 ft) above sea level.

Chilecito's height from sea level is 1,143 metres, or 3,750 feet. GeoNames reads 1,107 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,080 m.

Ground within 5 km

961 m – 1,396 m

Mean 1,153 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 435 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 16

among the towns of La Rioja, and 43rd of 974 in Argentina.

Nearest town

15 km to the S, at 932 m, 211 m lower.

Cross-section through Chilecito

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chilecito; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,908836WE26.9 km
West to east: from 1,834 m at 13 km west to 910 m at 13 km east.
1,908836NS26.9 km
North to south: from 1,494 m at 13 km north to 937 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Chilecito, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Chilecito

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nonogasta 15 kmS 932 m (3,058 ft) −211 m
Guandacol 18.5 kmN 1,493 m (4,898 ft) +350 m
Famatina 27.8 kmN 1,589 m (5,213 ft) +446 m
Vichigasta 35.5 kmS 888 m (2,913 ft) −255 m

Where Chilecito is

Latitude -29.1659603, longitude -67.5. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chilecito elevation: 1,143 m (3,750 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 Chilecito'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 1,107 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.