Elevation of La Silleta, Salta, Argentina

La Silleta, Salta, Argentina is 1,389 m (4,557 ft) above sea level.

La Silleta's height from sea level is 1,389 metres, or 4,557 feet. GeoNames reads 1,400 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,363 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,314 m – 1,655 m

Mean 1,420 m across the 9.7 km square centred on the town, 341 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 43

among the towns of Salta, and 24th of 974 in Argentina.

Nearest town

7.6 km to the SW, at 1,501 m, 112 m higher.

Cross-section through La Silleta

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La Silleta; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,6451,102WE27.4 km
West to east: from 1,764 m at 14 km west to 1,209 m at 14 km east.
2,6451,102NS27.4 km
North to south: from 1,876 m at 14 km north to 1,320 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around La Silleta, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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 La Silleta

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Campo Quijano 7.6 kmSW 1,501 m (4,925 ft) +112 m
Cerrillos 10.8 kmE 1,247 m (4,091 ft) −142 m
Rosario de Lerma 12.9 kmS 1,331 m (4,367 ft) −58 m
La Merced 14.9 kmSE 1,242 m (4,075 ft) −147 m
Salta 19.6 kmNE 1,191 m (3,907 ft) −198 m

Where La Silleta is

Latitude -24.8666706, longitude -65.5833511. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Silleta elevation: 1,389 m (4,557 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 La Silleta'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 1,400 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.