The El Nido plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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22° on Nov. 15, 1905, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 24° in 1938.
El Nido’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 150 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary alluvium and marine deposits (coarse-detrital), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 24 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in El Nido reaches San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean by way of Sand Slough, Mariposa Slough, the San Joaquin and New York Slough: about 160 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of El Nido; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
El Nido has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in December. About 12 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 El Nido normally reaches 67° and falls to 41°. The record high is 81°, in 1933; the record low 25°, in 1938. The most rain on this date, 1.57 in, fell in 1953.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 from the Merced Area threaded record (Merced Municipal Airport, 11 miles north). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
