Elevation of Amawou, Kano, Nigeria

Amawou, Kano, Nigeria is 528 m (1,732 ft) above sea level.

Amawou's height from sea level is 528 metres, or 1,732 feet. GeoNames reads 534 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Ungwan Amawou.

Ground within 5 km

519 m – 567 m

Mean 533 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 48 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 47

among the towns of Kano, and 123rd of 1,000 in Nigeria.

Nearest town

12.3 km to the S, at 582 m, 54 m higher.

Cross-section through Amawou

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Amawou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

611505WE28.5 km
West to east: from 569 m at 14 km west to 520 m at 14 km east.
611505NS28.5 km
North to south: from 513 m at 14 km north to 603 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Amawou, 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 Amawou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tudun Wada 12.3 kmS 582 m (1,909 ft) +54 m
Almajiri 23.5 kmNW 612 m (2,008 ft) +84 m
Ikara (Kaduna) 26.9 kmSW 669 m (2,195 ft) +141 m
Paki (Kaduna) 30 kmNW 580 m (1,903 ft) +52 m
Rano 30.6 kmNE 520 m (1,706 ft) −8 m

Peaks and passes near Amawou

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

Where Amawou is

Latitude 11.36, longitude 8.39. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Amawou elevation: 528 m (1,732 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 Amawou'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 534 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.