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Active volcano · Cordillera Central · Cartago Province

Turrialba

3,325 m10,909 ft

Prominence: 93 m305 ft
Isolation: 1.0 km
Tonight: 6°CLight rain · Wind 8 km/h N

Turrialba is a 3,325 m (10,909 ft) active volcano in the Cordillera Central, Cartago Province, Costa Rica.

All facts

Elevation: 3,325 m · 10,909 ft
Nearest higher peak: Irazú Volcano (3,432 m)
Range: Cordillera Central
Region: Cartago Province, Costa Rica
Spanish name: Volcán Turrialba
Coordinates: 10.0162° N, 83.7649° W

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3D map

Turrialba 3D map

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Surface

Vertical scale

Topographic map

Turrialba topographic map

100 m contours from the Copernicus GLO-30 terrain model. Click two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.Tap two points on the map to draw your own cross-section.

Index contours every 500 mShowing west → east through the summit

Turrialba elevation profile

West → east through the summit

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Weather

Turrialba weather

Tonight · Light rain · 6°C (43°F) · 0.4 mm · Wind 8 km/h N

Turrialba forecast for the summit, about 3,325 m. Summit vs base: the Base line is for about 1,755 m.

Tonight6°0.4 mm8 km/h NBase 16°
Sat6°9°18.4 mm8 km/h NEBase 15 / 18°
Sun4°9°20.1 mm9 km/h NEBase 14 / 18°
Mon5°9°26.4 mm7 km/h NEBase 14 / 19°
Tue4°10°4.7 mm2 km/h NEBase 13 / 19°
Wed5°9°12.8 mm6 km/h NEBase 14 / 18°
Thu5°9°6.1 mm6 km/h NEBase 14 / 19°
Fri5°11°3.1 mm7 km/h NEBase 14 / 20°
Sat5°11°6.0 mm9 km/h NEBase 14 / 20°
Sun6°9°15.6 mm9 km/h NEBase 15 / 18°

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

Camping & parking near Turrialba

Campsites, parking, trailheads and mountain huts mapped in OpenStreetMap around Turrialba, nearest first, by straight-line distance. Check access, fees and permits locally.

Nearest hut
Refugio Volcán Turrialba
3.0 km WSW
Directions Map

All mapped places 1

Place	Distance
Refugio Volcán TurrialbaHut	3.0 km WSW

Slope

Share of the 6 × 6 km view by steepness, from the 30 m model.

Mixed terrain: gentle slopes, steep faces and everything between.

Gentle, 0–15°

31.7%

Moderate, 15–30°

44.4%

Steep, 30–45°

18.9%

Cliffs, 45° and over

5.0%

Steeper than 30°: 23.9% of the 36 km² view
Relief in view: 1,567 m low point 1,755 m

Land cover

ESA WorldCover 10 m classification of the same area.

Trees 69.8%Grassland 21.0%Bare rock / sparse 6.4%Cropland 2.6%

Snow & ice means glaciers and year-round snow (a yearly average), not today’s snow cover.

Wildlife

Wildlife seen nearby

Sightings of the most-seen species on iNaturalist (research grade) within 3 km; 174 species recorded in all.

Sightings per species 6

Fiery-throated Hummingbird37
Sooty Thrush30
Sooty-capped Chlorospingus20
Volcano Hummingbird16
Black-and-yellow Silky-flycatcher15
Rufous-collared Sparrow14

Where it sits

Where Turrialba sits

Nearby

Nearby places

More 1

Cerro ChirripóPeak · 3,820 m67 km SSE

Accuracy

How accurate is this?

26 m low This 3D map reads 3,299 m at the summit; the official height is 3,325 m.

Why: a 30 m terrain model averages each cell, so a sharp summit gets rounded off.

Source	Summit	Difference
Official height (Wikidata)	3,325 m	—
Copernicus GLO-30 (used on this page)	3,299 m	-26 m
Copernicus GLO-90	3,310 m	-15 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.
Land cover: © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium
Facts: Wikidata (CC0)
Wildlife: iNaturalist community observations, counts only
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

Turrialba

West → east through the summit

Nearest hut

Data sources