topografía

topography

noun toh-poh-grah-FEE-ah Rare

Origin: From Greek topos (place) + graphia (writing/description).

Usage Note

Topografía refers both to the physical relief of a landscape and to the technical discipline of surveying and mapping terrain. A practitioner is a topógrafo. In geology and engineering contexts it overlaps with relieve (relief) and cartografía (cartography), but topografía specifically implies measurement and detailed surface features.

Examples

"La topografía de la región es muy accidentada."

Natural Translation

The topography of the region is very rugged.

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