Elevation of El Volcán, San Luis, Argentina

El Volcán, San Luis, Argentina is 978 m (3,209 ft) above sea level.

El Volcán's height from sea level is 978 metres, or 3,209 feet. GeoNames reads 968 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

824 m – 1,225 m

Mean 977 m across the 9.4 km square centred on the town, 401 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 17

among the towns of San Luis, and 59th of 974 in Argentina.

Nearest town

4.7 km to the NW, at 996 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through El Volcán

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is El Volcán; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,217632WE26.4 km
West to east: from 742 m at 13 km west to 1,032 m at 13 km east.
2,217632NS26.4 km
North to south: from 2,067 m at 13 km north to 907 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around El Volcán, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 55 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 El Volcán

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Potrero de los Funes 4.7 kmNW 996 m (3,268 ft) +18 m
San Luis 14.8 kmW 707 m (2,320 ft) −271 m

Where El Volcán is

Latitude -33.2501183, longitude -66.2008667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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El Volcán elevation: 978 m (3,209 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 El Volcán'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 968 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.