Vayas, PR Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
440 ft 135 m370 ft 115 m340 ft 105 m270 ft 85 m200 ft 60 m170 ft 50 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 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
Vayas sits at about 230 ft (70 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
230 ft 70 m
most residents: 180–380 ft
Lowest
170 ft 50 m
on the northeast side
Highest
440 ft 135 m
at the foot of the Cordillera Central
Average
260 ft 80 m
all land inside the Census boundary
Vayas spans about 270 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 | 230 ft70 m |
| Highest point Inside the Census boundary, at the foot of the Cordillera Central | 440 ft135 m |
| Lowest point Inside the Census boundary, on the northeast side | 170 ft50 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Vayas | 200 ft60 m |
| Airport (PSE) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 3.2 mi southeast of the Census boundary | 37 ft11 m |
| Average of all land | 260 ft80 m |
| Nearest peak Monte Jayuya, 7.5 mi north of the Census boundary | 4,310 ft1,315 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
0.4 mi south to north through the town center.
Topographic Map
- Location
- Community (census-designated) in Ponce Municipio, Puerto Rico, United States
- Population
- 388 2020 Census
- Land area
- 0.1 sq mi
- Density
- 3,626 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 18.0522° N, 66.5841° W
- Time zone
- Atlantic UTC−4, no daylight saving
- Drains to
- Caribbean Sea
- Airport
- Mercedita (PSE) 37 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 00731
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Monte Verde1,490 ft
- Tibes1,250 ft
- La Yuca650 ft
- El Paraiso530 ft
- Parcelas Mandry430 ft
- Cerrillos Hoyos410 ft
- Luis Lloréns Torres240 ft
- Vayas230 ft
- Coto Laurel200 ft
- Aguilita100 ft
- Calzada18 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Puerto Rico93rd highest of 214
- Towns in Ponce Municipio11th highest of 13
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Monte Jayuya4,310 ft
- Monte Guilarte3,954 ft
- El Toro3,480 ft
- Pico Pinto2,000 ft
- Cerro El Gato, Ponce Municipio980 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.
- Vayas 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.