Ciales Municipio, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,130 ft 1,260 m3,110 ft 950 m2,600 ft 795 m1,580 ft 480 m560 ft 170 m49 ft 15 m
Contours every 200 ft, bold every 1,000 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.
- Municipio area
- Fades everything outside the official municipio boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Ciales Municipio averages about 1,260 ft (385 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 49 ft on the northeast side to 4,130 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
1,260 ft 385 m
all land inside the municipio
Highest
4,130 ft 1,260 m
on the south side
Lowest
49 ft 15 m
on the northeast side
Ciales Municipio spans about 4,081 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,260 ft385 m |
| Highest point Inside the municipio, on the south side | 4,130 ft1,260 m |
| Lowest point Inside the municipio, on the northeast side | 49 ft15 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
8.2 mi south to north through Jaguas.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Municipio in Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 16,984 2020 Census
- Land area
- 66.6 sq mi + 0.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 255 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean 75%, Closed basin (does not reach the sea) 25%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring municipios sharing a border, by average
- Jayuya Municipio2,280 ft
- Orocovis Municipio2,240 ft
- Utuado Municipio1,300 ft
- Ciales Municipio1,260 ft
- Morovis Municipio800 ft
- Florida Municipio660 ft
- Arecibo Municipio450 ft
- Manatí Municipio290 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Municipios in Puerto Rico13th highest of 78
- Counties in the United States1,035th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cerro Vista Alegre2,110 ft
- Cerro Cedro1,810 ft
- Cerro El Gato, Ciales Municipio1,800 ft
- Cerro Gordo, Ciales Municipio1,410 ft
- Cerro Purrón1,070 ft
All 3 towns in Ciales Municipio by typical elevation
- Jaguas1,100 ft
- Frontón1,070 ft
- Hato Viejo480 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census municipio boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid. Land means the boundary minus Census area water.
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell. Lowest: the lowest land cell; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Nearby Places: neighboring municipios and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the municipio with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it 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).
- Towns: each town's typical elevation (population-weighted median of its own 2020 blocks at 1 arc-second); a town is listed when any of its 2020 residents live in the municipio.
- 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 (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.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.