Elevation of Obena, Benue, Nigeria

Obena, Benue, Nigeria is 164 m (538 ft) above sea level.

Obena's height from sea level is 164 metres, or 538 feet. GeoNames reads 159 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

144 m – 219 m

Mean 170 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 75 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 32

among the towns of Benue, and 720th of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

4.5 km to the E, at 146 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Obena

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 Obena; the vertical scale is the same on both.

285111WE28.6 km
West to east: from 273 m at 14 km west to 173 m at 14 km east.
285111NS28.6 km
North to south: from 123 m at 14 km north to 182 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Obena, 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 Obena

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Okpeje 4.5 kmE 146 m (479 ft) −18 m
Adoka 5.5 kmSW 176 m (577 ft) +12 m
Ipetu (Osun) 13.4 kmW 230 m (755 ft) +66 m
Ibaji 14.5 kmS 182 m (597 ft) +18 m
Egwo 23.7 kmNE 150 m (492 ft) −14 m

Where Obena is

Latitude 7.48, longitude 8.02. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Obena elevation: 164 m (538 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 Obena'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 159 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.