Luquillo Municipio, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
2,220 ft 675 m1,670 ft 510 m1,390 ft 425 m830 ft 255 m280 ft 85 m0 ft 0 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
Luquillo Municipio averages about 430 ft (130 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Océano Atlántico to 2,220 ft on the southwest side.
Average elevation
430 ft 130 m
all land inside the municipio
Highest
2,220 ft 675 m
on the southwest side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Océano Atlántico
Luquillo Municipio spans about 2,220 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.
Under 1% of Luquillo Municipio's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 2% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 430 ft130 m |
| Highest point Inside the municipio, on the southwest side | 2,220 ft675 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Océano Atlántico | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
9.4 mi south to north through Ramos.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Municipio in Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 17,781 2020 Census
- Land area
- 25.8 sq mi + 20.7 sq mi water
- Density
- 689 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring municipios sharing a border, by average
- Río Grande Municipio810 ft
- Luquillo Municipio430 ft
- Ceiba Municipio410 ft
- Fajardo Municipio280 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Municipios in Puerto Rico48th highest of 78
- Counties in the United States2,433rd highest of 3,151
All 2 towns in Luquillo Municipio by typical elevation
- Ramos140 ft
- Playa Fortuna45 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.
- 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, 0 ft at 18.3837° N, 65.7518° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted; this coastal land's lowest point is sea level on the coast.
- 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; NOAA tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.