Peñuelas Municipio, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
3,950 ft 1,205 m2,970 ft 905 m2,470 ft 755 m1,480 ft 450 m490 ft 150 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 500 ft, bold every 2,500 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
Peñuelas Municipio averages about 1,030 ft (315 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Bahía de Tallaboa to 3,954 ft on Monte Guilarte.
Average elevation
1,030 ft 315 m
all land inside the municipio
Highest
3,954 ft 1,205 m
on Monte Guilarte
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Bahía de Tallaboa
Peñuelas Municipio spans about 3,950 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 Peñuelas Municipio's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 1% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,030 ft315 m |
| Highest point Inside the municipio, on Monte Guilarte (NGS survey height) | 3,954 ft1,205 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Bahía de Tallaboa | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
14 mi south to north through Santo Domingo.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Municipio in Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 20,399 2020 Census
- Land area
- 44.7 sq mi + 23.2 sq mi water
- Density
- 457 per sq mi
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Caribbean Sea
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring municipios sharing a border, by average
- Adjuntas Municipio2,180 ft
- Peñuelas Municipio1,030 ft
- Ponce Municipio810 ft
- Guayanilla Municipio630 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Municipios in Puerto Rico19th highest of 78
- Counties in the United States1,353rd highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cerrote de Peñuelas3,390 ft
- Cerro Garrote3,380 ft
- Cerro El Peligro2,910 ft
- Cerro Mata de Plátano2,860 ft
- Peñon de Ponce450 ft
All 3 towns in Peñuelas Municipio by typical elevation
- Santo Domingo450 ft
- Tallaboa380 ft
- Tallaboa Alta210 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; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. 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, −8 ft at 17.9862° N, 66.7524° 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.