Elevation of Bambous, Black River, Mauritius

Bambous, Black River, Mauritius is 148 m (486 ft) above sea level.

Bambous's height from sea level is 148 metres, or 486 feet. GeoNames reads 122 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 122 m.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 505 m

Mean 142 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 505 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 13

among the towns of Black River, and 52nd of 143 in Mauritius.

Nearest town

3 km to the S, at 152 m, 4 m higher.

Cross-section through Bambous

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bambous; the vertical scale is the same on both.

546-41WE27.9 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 444 m at 14 km east.
546-41NS27.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 278 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Bambous, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 58 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 Bambous

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Cascavelle 3 kmS 152 m (499 ft) +4 m
Flic en Flac 5.1 kmSW 13 m (43 ft) −135 m
Albion 5.8 kmN 24 m (79 ft) −124 m
Quatre Bornes (Plaines Wilhelm) 5.9 kmE 324 m (1,063 ft) +176 m
Gros Cailloux 6.3 kmNE 82 m (269 ft) −66 m

Peaks and passes near Bambous

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

Where Bambous is

Latitude -20.26, longitude 57.4148333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bambous elevation: 148 m (486 ft) above sea level

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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 Bambous'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 122 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.