Elevation of Barr Ilyās, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon

Barr Ilyās, al-Biqa'a, Lebanon is 871 m (2,858 ft) above sea level.

Barr Ilyās's height from sea level is 871 metres, or 2,858 feet. GeoNames reads 880 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: بر الياس.

Ground within 5 km

867 m – 1,319 m

Mean 887 m across the 9.3 km square centred on the town, 452 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 26

among the towns of al-Biqa'a, and 30th of 74 in Lebanon.

Nearest town

'Anjar

6 km to the S, at 908 m, 37 m higher.

Cross-section through Barr Ilyās

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 26.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Barr Ilyās; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,145 m at 13 km west to 1,418 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 1,562 m at 13 km north to 1,465 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 55 km around Barr Ilyās, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 55 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Barr Ilyās

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
'Anjar	6 km	S	908 m (2,979 ft)	+37 m
H̨ušmuš	6.7 km	NE	889 m (2,917 ft)	+18 m
Majdal 'Anjar	7.5 km	S	950 m (3,117 ft)	+79 m
Zah̨lah	7.7 km	N	986 m (3,235 ft)	+115 m
Ta'labāyā	10.2 km	NW	1,213 m (3,980 ft)	+342 m

Peaks and passes near Barr Ilyās

Chîr el Ahmar, peak at 2,593 m (8,507 ft), 19.7 km to the N — 1,722 m above the town.
Ghorfe El Frensewye, peak at 2,555 m (8,383 ft), 19.4 km to the N — 1,684 m above the town.
Mzâr Sannîne, peak at 2,463 m (8,081 ft), 22 km to the N — 1,592 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Barr Ilyās is

Latitude 33.7795371, longitude 35.9261021. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Barr Ilyās's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 880 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.