Elevation of Kotorkoshi, Zamfara, Nigeria

Kotorkoshi, Zamfara, Nigeria is 485 m (1,591 ft) above sea level.

Kotorkoshi's height from sea level is 485 metres, or 1,591 feet. GeoNames reads 483 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Kotorkushi.

Ground within 5 km

459 m – 670 m

Mean 505 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 211 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 41

among the towns of Zamfara, and 163rd of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

Mada

13.3 km to the E, at 470 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Kotorkoshi

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kotorkoshi; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 464 m at 14 km west to 472 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 455 m at 14 km north to 534 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kotorkoshi, 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 Kotorkoshi

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mada	13.3 km	E	470 m (1,542 ft)	−15 m
Gusau	15.8 km	W	452 m (1,483 ft)	−33 m
Chafe	23.8 km	SE	569 m (1,867 ft)	+84 m
Dorka	24.4 km	E	452 m (1,483 ft)	−33 m
Bungudu	31.9 km	NW	404 m (1,325 ft)	−81 m

Peaks and passes near Kotorkoshi

Dutsen Wauni, hill at 627 m (2,057 ft), 22.5 km to the E — 142 m above the town.

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

Where Kotorkoshi is

Latitude 12.1408844, longitude 6.8176828. 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 Kotorkoshi'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 483 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.