San Juan Municipio, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
1,050 ft 320 m790 ft 240 m660 ft 200 m400 ft 120 m130 ft 40 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
San Juan Municipio averages about 180 ft (55 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from sea level on the Océano Atlántico to 1,050 ft on the south side.
Average elevation
180 ft 55 m
all land inside the municipio
Highest
1,050 ft 320 m
on the south side
Lowest
0 ft 0 m
at sea level on the Océano Atlántico
San Juan Municipio spans about 1,050 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 San Juan Municipio's land lies below the average daily high tide (MHHW, NOAA), and 3% lies less than 3 ft above it. Check flood zones on FEMA's map
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 180 ft55 m |
| Highest point Inside the municipio, on the south side | 1,050 ft320 m |
| Lowest point Where the land meets the Océano Atlántico | 0 ft0 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
15 mi south to north through Caño Martin Peña.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Municipio in Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 342,259 2020 Census
- Land area
- 47.9 sq mi + 29.1 sq mi water
- Density
- 7,144 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
- Aguas Buenas Municipio1,150 ft
- Caguas Municipio720 ft
- Guaynabo Municipio330 ft
- Trujillo Alto Municipio310 ft
- Carolina Municipio230 ft
- San Juan Municipio180 ft
- Toa Baja Municipio63 ft
- Cataño Municipio8 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- Municipios in Puerto Rico66th highest of 78
- Counties in the United States2,816th highest of 3,151
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Cerro Magueyes, San Juan Municipio570 ft
- Montes de Hatillo390 ft
- Montes de San Patricio270 ft
The one town in San Juan Municipio
- Caño Martin Peña5 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, −7 ft at 18.4501° N, 66.0871° 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.