Quebrada Prieta, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,280 ft 390 m1,040 ft 315 m910 ft 280 m670 ft 205 m430 ft 130 m310 ft 95 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
Quebrada Prieta sits at about 870 ft (265 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
870 ft 265 m
most residents: 370–870 ft
Lowest
310 ft 95 m
on the north side
Highest
1,280 ft 390 m
at the foot of the Sierra de Luquillo
Average
590 ft 180 m
all land inside the Census boundary
Quebrada Prieta spans about 970 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 | 870 ft265 m |
| Highest point Inside the Census boundary, at the foot of the Sierra de Luquillo | 1,280 ft390 m |
| Lowest point Inside the Census boundary, on the north side | 310 ft95 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Quebrada Prieta | 360 ft110 m |
| Airport (SJU) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 11 mi northwest of the Census boundary | 10 ft3 m |
| Average of all land | 590 ft180 m |
| Nearest peak El Toro, 4.5 mi east of the Census boundary | 3,480 ft1,060 m |
Elevation profile, west to east
1.0 mi west to east through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Community (census-designated) in Canóvanas Municipio, Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 1,060 2020 Census
- Land area
- 1.9 sq mi
- Density
- 560 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 18.2988° N, 65.9086° W
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Atlantic Ocean
- Airport
- Luis Munoz Marin International (SJU) 10 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 00729
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Villa Sin Miedo1,490 ft
- Benítez1,370 ft
- Palma Sola1,040 ft
- Quebrada Prieta870 ft
- Lomas810 ft
- El Mangó340 ft
- Cambalache330 ft
- Campo Rico310 ft
- Pueblito del Río280 ft
- Canovanillas280 ft
- Celada180 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Puerto Rico26th highest of 214
- Towns in Canóvanas Municipio4th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monte Jayuya4,310 ft
- Monte Guilarte3,954 ft
- El Toro3,480 ft
- La Peregrina1,902 ft
- Cerro Pitahaya1,710 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).
- 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.
- Quebrada Prieta 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.