Capitanejo, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
83 ft 25 m71 ft 22 m65 ft 20 m53 ft 16 m40 ft 12 m34 ft 10 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official Census boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Capitanejo sits at about 62 ft (19 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
62 ft 19 m
most residents: 48–68 ft
Lowest
34 ft 10 m
on the southwest side
Highest
83 ft 25 m
at the foot of the Cordillera Central
Average
56 ft 17 m
all land inside the Census boundary
Capitanejo spans about 49 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 62 ft19 m |
| Highest point Inside the Census boundary, at the foot of the Cordillera Central | 83 ft25 m |
| Lowest point Inside the Census boundary, on the southwest side | 34 ft10 m |
| Airport (PSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 1.2 mi west of the Census boundary | 37 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 56 ft17 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
1.1 mi south to north through the middle of Capitanejo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Community (census-designated) in Juana Díaz and Ponce municipios, Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 3,175 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.9 sq mi
- Density
- 3,363 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 18.0147° N, 66.5336° W
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Caribbean Sea
- Airport
- Mercedita (PSE) 37 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 00715
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Parcelas Mandry430 ft
- Cerrillos Hoyos410 ft
- Río Cañas Abajo260 ft
- Luis Lloréns Torres240 ft
- Vayas230 ft
- Coto Laurel200 ft
- Piedra Aguza160 ft
- Aguilita100 ft
- Capitanejo62 ft
- Calzada18 ft
- Potala Pastillo8 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Puerto Rico160th highest of 214
- Towns in Juana Díaz Municipio6th highest of 7
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monte Jayuya4,310 ft
- Monte Guilarte3,954 ft
- El Toro3,480 ft
- Monte Figueroa460 ft
- Cerro Los Negrones418 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the Census boundary, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census Census boundary (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 34 ft at 18.0074° N, 66.5457° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: Puerto Rico Vertical Datum of 2002 (PRVD02). NGS plans to replace PRVD02 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Capitanejo is an unincorporated community; figures cover the census-designated place, a statistical area.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS and Watershed Boundary Dataset; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones; NOAA NGS survey heights. All public domain.