Elevation of La Foa, Sud, New Caledonia

La Foa, Sud, New Caledonia is 42 m (138 ft) above sea level.

La Foa's height from sea level is 42 metres, or 138 feet. GeoNames reads 24 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

5 m – 492 m

Mean 87 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 487 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 13

among the towns of Sud, and 9th of 33 in New Caledonia.

Nearest town

7.3 km to the NW, at 335 m, 293 m higher.

Cross-section through La Foa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La Foa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

569-39WE27.7 km
West to east: from 10 m at 14 km west to 101 m at 14 km east.
569-39NS27.7 km
North to south: from 462 m at 14 km north to 3 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around La Foa, 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 La Foa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Farino 7.3 kmNW 335 m (1,099 ft) +293 m
Sarraméa 7.6 kmN 84 m (276 ft) +42 m
Moindou 16.1 kmW 20 m (66 ft) −22 m
Canala (Nord) 24.4 kmNE 12 m (39 ft) −30 m
Bouloupari 29.1 kmSE 15 m (49 ft) −27 m

Where La Foa is

Latitude -21.707868, longitude 165.830349. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Foa elevation: 42 m (138 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 La Foa'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 24 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.