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Mount Apo: terrain elevation and local relief
Mount Apo uses an approximately 2,946-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,854 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 2,946 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Mindanao · bounded summit-area surface
- In feet, rounded
- 9,666 ft (1 ft = 0.3048 m)
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Terrain boundary, base and datum
- Vertical reference
- EGM2008. Published surveys are separate; no datum conversion is applied.
- Highest sampled surface
- 2946.2 m at 6.987500°, 125.270833°.
- Local base
- 1092.3 m at 6.956111°, 125.318611°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West 125.220972°, east 125.320417°; south 6.955972°, north 7.019306°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 30.7 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
The Philippines’ 2006 tentative-list submission for Mount Pulag, hosted by UNESCO, gives Mount Apo as 2,954 meters in its comparative-site description. That submitted reference is not a claim of World Heritage inscription or a new UNESCO survey. This Copernicus section reaches approximately 2,946 meters in EGM2008. Vegetation can contribute to this digital surface model, and the bounded base is not a hiking-route start.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 1092.3 meters at 6.956111° latitude, 125.318611° longitude. This produces about 1,854 meters of relief within the stated boundary. It is not a universal mountain base, a route’s total ascent, or topographic prominence.
The rendered surface uses the public 2021 Copernicus release, primarily based on TanDEM-X observations from 2011–2015 with infill from other sources. It is a surface model rather than a current bare-earth survey. Neutral shading explains the geometry without claiming a snow season or photographic ground texture. No datum conversion or summit correction is applied.
Quick facts
Mount Apo uses an approximately 2,946-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 1,854 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- Philippines submission to UNESCO, 2006: Mount Pulag tentative list, comparative Mount Apo reference
- Copernicus DEM: dataset definition, datums and attribution
- Public Copernicus GLO-30 release documentation
- Wikidata: summit-area identity and initial coordinate
- Copernicus source terrain tile 1 (GeoTIFF)
- Copernicus source terrain tile 2 (GeoTIFF)
The dated 2,954-meter Philippine submission and approximately 2,946-meter terrain sample remain separate references.
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