Nature · Citlaltépetl · summit-crater terrain section
Pico de Orizaba: terrain elevation and local relief
Pico de Orizaba uses an approximately 5,592-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,508 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
≈ 5,592 m
Data-derived estimate- Measurement
- Highest sampled surface in the documented Copernicus terrain section · EGM2008
- Subject or version
- Citlaltépetl · summit-crater terrain section
- In feet, rounded
- 18,345.2 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
- 5591.6 m at 19.030278°, -97.270278°.
- Local base
- 3084.0 m at 19.021667°, -97.218056°. Lowest sampled point within this bounded terrain section.
- Section bounds in WGS84-G1150
- West -97.322361°, east -97.217917°; south 18.998472°, north 19.061806°.
- View and scale
- Orthographic map section facing north. Equal horizontal and vertical map scales. Approximate grid spacing: 29.2 m east-west and 30.7 m north-south. Lower and surrounding terrain omitted.
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A little more perspective
Mexico’s Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources gives Pico de Orizaba, also called Citlaltépetl, as 5,636 meters in its January 2019 national-park reference. This Copernicus section reaches about 5,592 meters in EGM2008. Its boundary shows an upper portion of the volcanic edifice, with lower terrain omitted. The measured surface is not a reconstruction of the park’s full drainage basin or a current glacier survey.
The local-relief view subtracts the lowest sampled point in this section: 3084.0 meters at 19.021667° latitude, -97.218056° longitude. This produces about 2,508 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
Pico de Orizaba uses an approximately 5,592-meter surface estimate in EGM2008 from Copernicus GLO-30. The bounded terrain section has about 2,508 meters of local relief above its lowest sampled point. Published summit surveys are separate references.
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Sources and measurement notes
- SEMARNAT: Pico de Orizaba National Park, January 2019
- 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 5,636-meter government reference and the approximately 5,592-meter sampled surface have separate provenance. Citlaltépetl and Pico de Orizaba identify the same selected mountain.
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