Elevation of Itapa, Ekiti, Nigeria

Itapa, Ekiti, Nigeria is 622 m (2,041 ft) above sea level.

Itapa's height from sea level is 622 metres, or 2,041 feet. GeoNames reads 614 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 614 m.

Also written: Itapa Ekiki.

Ground within 5 km

485 m – 685 m

Mean 564 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 200 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 58

among the towns of Ekiti, and 51st of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

3.1 km to the W, at 616 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Itapa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Itapa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

679370WE28.6 km
West to east: from 566 m at 14 km west to 560 m at 14 km east.
679370NS28.6 km
North to south: from 517 m at 14 km north to 393 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Itapa, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Itapa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Egosi 3.1 kmW 616 m (2,021 ft) −6 m
Oye 5.9 kmW 552 m (1,811 ft) −70 m
Ire Ekiti 6.7 kmS 544 m (1,785 ft) −78 m
Aiyede 11 kmNW 578 m (1,896 ft) −44 m
Igbemo 12.8 kmS 393 m (1,289 ft) −229 m

Where Itapa is

Latitude 7.808845, longitude 5.386542. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Itapa elevation: 622 m (2,041 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 Itapa'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 614 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.