Elevation of Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina is 42 m (138 ft) above sea level.

Mercedes's height from sea level is 42 metres, or 138 feet. GeoNames reads 40 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 43 m.

Ground within 5 km

29 m – 45 m

Mean 38 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 16 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

94th of 165

among the towns of Buenos Aires, and 845th of 974 in Argentina.

Nearest town

7.3 km to the E, at 37 m, 5 m lower.

Cross-section through Mercedes

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mercedes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

687WE26.2 km
West to east: from 42 m at 13 km west to 29 m at 13 km east.
687NS26.2 km
North to south: from 46 m at 13 km north to 42 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 55 km around Mercedes, 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 Mercedes

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Gowland 7.3 kmE 37 m (121 ft) −5 m
San Andrés de Giles 23.2 kmN 50 m (164 ft) +8 m
José María Jáuregui 24.7 kmE 26 m (85 ft) −16 m
Suipacha 26.7 kmSW 48 m (157 ft) +6 m
Luján 30.1 kmE 21 m (69 ft) −21 m

Where Mercedes is

Latitude -34.6546021, longitude -59.4284134. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mercedes elevation: 42 m (138 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Mercedes'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 40 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.