Elevation of Los Alcázares, Spain
5m
above sea level · 16 ft
Los Alcázares is a city of 20,408 people in the Region of Murcia, the 20th largest in the region. Of Spain’s 279 municipalities with 20,000 to 50,000 people, it’s the 14th lowest.
By the Mapsfera Team
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Key facts
- Coordinates
- 37.74° N · 0.85° W
- Degrees, minutes and seconds: 37° 44′ 21″ N · 0° 51′ 7″ W
- UTM coordinates
- 30S · 689,271 E · 4,179,054 N
- Zone 30 · ETRS89, the official datum on the mainland, the Balearic Islands, Ceuta and Melilla
- Municipality
- Los Alcázares
- INE code 30902
- Time zone
- Central European Time
- UTC+1 · UTC+2 in summer
- Population (2025)
- 20,408 people
- 20.1 km² municipality · 1,017 people/km²
- Ground height (MDT05)
- 5.2 m (17 ft)
- What the IGN’s terrain model measures at this exact point. The official elevation is 5 m.
Population
Los Alcázares had 20,408 residents on January 1, 2025, according to Spain’s municipal register (Padrón), 31% more than in 2015, when it had 15,605. The municipality covers 20.1 km², a density of 1,017 people/km², against a Spanish average of 97 people/km².
It’s the 20th most populous of the 45 municipalities in the Region of Murcia, after Murcia (479,405), home to 1.3% of its people.
Compared with Spain’s towns of 20,000 to 50,000
Los Alcázares sits 5 m (16 ft) above sea level. Of the 279 Spanish municipalities with 20,000 to 50,000 people, the highest is Soria, at 1,056 m, and the lowest is Santa Pola, at 1 m. The average is 213 m, so Los Alcázares is 208 m below it.
The regional capital, Murcia, is 37 km away in a straight line and 37 m higher than Los Alcázares. Madrid is 386 km away.
The nearest city with more than 50,000 people is Cartagena, 19 km away in a straight line and at the same elevation.
Of the 20 cities in the Region of Murcia with an elevation page, Los Alcázares is the 2nd lowest. The highest is Caravaca de la Cruz (628 m) and the lowest, Águilas (4 m).
According to the IGN’s summit table, the highest point in the Region of Murcia is Obispo, at 2,014 m (6,608 ft). It lies 129 km away in a straight line, 2,009 m above Los Alcázares.
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Frequently asked questions
What people most often ask about the elevation of Los Alcázares.
What is the elevation of Los Alcázares, Spain?
Los Alcázares sits at 5 meters (16 feet) above sea level. That’s the official figure from Spain’s National Geographic Institute (IGN), measured at the reference point of the town center.
What are the coordinates of Los Alcázares?
Latitude 37.73923 and longitude -0.85194 in decimal degrees (37° 44′ 21″ N · 0° 51′ 7″ W). In UTM, zone 30: 689,271 E and 4,179,054 N, in the ETRS89 datum.
How does Los Alcázares rank among Spain’s highest cities?
It’s the 14th lowest of the 279 municipalities with 20,000 to 50,000 people. The highest is Soria (1,056 m) and the lowest, Santa Pola (1 m).
Which is higher, Los Alcázares or Murcia?
Murcia. Los Alcázares sits at 5 m and Murcia at 42 m: a difference of 37 m, 37 km apart in a straight line.
How is elevation measured?
Elevation is the height of a point above mean sea level. Mapping agencies such as Spain’s IGN measure it on the ground with leveling and survey-grade GPS. Maps read it from an elevation model, a grid with the ground height at every point, so the model can differ by a few meters from the official figure, especially on sharp summits.
Sources
- IGN · IGR Poblaciones (population centers) Official elevation and coordinates of the town center. CC BY 4.0 license.
- MDT05 Digital Terrain Model (IGN) Ground height at this exact point, to check the figure. 5 m grid, CC BY 4.0 license.
- Municipal register (INE), January 1, 2025 Population: our own work with data from the INE website (www.ine.es). Area: IGN (CC BY 4.0).
- Terrain Tiles (AWS Open Data) Hillshading on the map, from public data by USGS, NASA, Copernicus and others.
- OpenStreetMap and OpenFreeMap The base map, with OpenStreetMap data (ODbL).
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