Punta Santiago, PR Elevation & Topographic Map

Elevation
150 ft 45 m110 ft 35 m95 ft 29 m57 ft 17 m19 ft 6 m0 ft 0 m
Contours every 100 ft, bold every 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.
- Area
- Fades everything outside the official Census boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Punta Santiago sits at about 8 ft (2 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
8 ft 2 m
most residents: 0–8 ft
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Mar Caribe
Highest
150 ft 45 m
at the foot of the Sierra de Luquillo
Average
6 ft 2 m
all land inside the Census boundary
Punta Santiago spans about 150 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.
About 14% of residents live below sea level.
21% of Punta Santiago's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 24% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 8 ft2 m |
| Highest point Inside the Census boundary, at the foot of the Sierra de Luquillo | 150 ft45 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Mar Caribe | 0 ft0 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Punta Santiago | 4 ft1 m |
| Airport (RVR) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 8.3 mi northeast of the Census boundary | 39 ft12 m |
| Average of all land | 6 ft2 m |
| Nearest peak El Toro, 8.2 mi northwest of the Census boundary | 3,480 ft1,060 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Community (census-designated) in Humacao Municipio, Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 3,524 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.6 sq mi
- Density
- 2,268 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 18.1663° N, 65.7482° W
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Jose Aponte de la Torre (RVR) 39 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 00741
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- La Fermina410 ft
- Peña Pobre330 ft
- Duque270 ft
- Antón Ruíz130 ft
- Bajandas130 ft
- Candelero Abajo120 ft
- Río Blanco100 ft
- Daguao77 ft
- Buena Vista, Humacao Municipio35 ft
- Punta Santiago8 ft
- Palmas del Mar2 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Puerto Rico202nd highest of 214
- Towns in Humacao Municipio7th highest of 8
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monte Jayuya4,310 ft
- El Toro3,480 ft
- Cerro Mabú830 ft
- Morro de Humacao240 ft
- El Morrillo110 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, −2 ft at 18.1649° N, 65.7629° 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: 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.
- Punta Santiago 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 tidal surfaces (MHHW). All public domain.