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Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
- Mapped trail
- 4.1 km+512 m · about 2 hEnds 690 m below the summit.
- Prominence
- 242 m795 ft
- Isolation
- 4.0 km
- Tonight
- 13°CCloudy · Wind 21 km/h NE
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano is a 1,916 m (6,286 ft) active volcano in the Cordillera de Guanacaste, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica.
All facts
- Elevation
- 1,916 m · 6,286 ft
- Nearest higher peak
- Miravalles Volcano (2,028 m)
- Range
- Cordillera de Guanacaste
- Region
- Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica
- Spanish name
- Volcán Rincón de la Vieja
- Coordinates
- 10.8274° N, 85.3490° W
Trails toward Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
Mapped trails from the road get to 690 m below the summit, typically a pass, lake or camp. The top itself is a mountaineering climb with no mapped route.
From Road end, 5.6 km NNE of Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
- Distance
- 4.1 kmone way
- Climb
- +512 m−5 m (1,680 ft up)
- Time up
- about 2 h
- Difficulty
- Grade not mapped
Ends 690 m below the summit.
Routes © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the ODbL. Climb from the terrain model. Trails change and maps miss things: check conditions locally.
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano 3D map
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Rincón de la Vieja Volcano terrain and contours
50 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. The route drawn is the easiest mapped one. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.
West → east through the summit
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano weather
Tonight · Cloudy · 13°C (55°F) · Wind 21 km/h NE
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano forecast for the summit, about 1,916 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 679 m.
- Tonight13°–21 km/h NEBase 21°
- Sat13°18°0.9 mm23 km/h NEBase 20 / 26°
- Sun13°19°–21 km/h NEBase 20 / 27°
- Mon13°19°–19 km/h NEBase 20 / 27°
- Tue13°20°0.8 mm9 km/h NEBase 20 / 27°
- Wed13°19°–11 km/h NEBase 21 / 27°
- Thu13°19°1.4 mm11 km/h NEBase 20 / 27°
- Fri13°19°1.5 mm11 km/h NEBase 20 / 26°
- Sat13°17°3.4 mm15 km/h NEBase 20 / 24°
- Sun13°17°5.4 mm18 km/h NEBase 21 / 23°
Forecast data: MET Norway, CC BY 4.0; daily low and high, precipitation total and strongest wind from the hourly data, model run Oct 23, 23:18 UTC.
Camping & parking near Rincón de la Vieja Volcano
Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Rincón de la Vieja Volcano, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.
Nearest parking
6.1 km S
How steep is the route to Rincón de la Vieja Volcano?
The easiest mapped route, 4.1 km from 679 m to 1,185 m. Steepest stretch: 30°.
- 0–15°3.8 km
- 15–30°0.3 km
Grades are averaged between profile points about 50 m apart, so short steeper steps don’t show.
Land cover
ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.
Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.
Where Rincón de la Vieja Volcano sits
- Region
- Costa Rica14North America1,313
Nearby places
Rincón de la Vieja Volcano downloads: topographic map, heightmap, STL 3D model and DEM
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How accurate is this?
39 m low This 3D map reads 1,877 m at the summit; the official height is 1,916 m.
Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off. The 90 m model misses by 45 m.
| Source | Summit | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Official height (Wikidata) | 1,916 m | — |
| Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page) | 1,877 m | -39 m |
| Copernicus GLO-90 | 1,871 m | -45 m |
Data sources
- Terrain
- Produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Imagery
- Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024 (scene 2024-02-02)
- Land cover
- © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
- Facts
- Wikidata (CC0)
- Routes, Camping & parking
- © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
- Summits
- © OpenStreetMap contributors, via Overture Maps Foundation (ODbL)
- Accuracy comparison, Panorama
- Includes Copernicus WorldDEM-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved. The European Union, ESA, DLR and Airbus incur no liability for any use of this data and do not endorse this service.
- Forecast
- Weather forecast from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
- Sources
- Wikidata · OpenStreetMap · GeoNames · Wikipedia