Elevation of La Possession, Saint-Denis, Reunion

La Possession, Saint-Denis, Reunion is 23 m (75 ft) above sea level.

La Possession's height from sea level is 23 metres, or 75 feet. GeoNames reads 24 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 1,013 m

Mean 167 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 1,013 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 5

among the towns of Saint-Denis, and 17th of 23 in Reunion.

Nearest town

4.5 km to the W, at 38 m, 15 m higher.

Cross-section through La Possession

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is La Possession; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,275-95WE27.8 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 549 m at 14 km east.
1,275-95NS27.8 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 1,180 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around La Possession, 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 Possession

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Le Port 4.5 kmW 38 m (125 ft) +15 m
Saint-Paul (Saint-Paul) 10.9 kmSW 19 m (62 ft) −4 m
Saint-Denis 13.2 kmNE 26 m (85 ft) +3 m
Les Trois-Bassins (Saint-Paul) 19.7 kmS 747 m (2,451 ft) +724 m
Sainte-Marie 22.3 kmE 67 m (220 ft) +44 m

Peaks and passes near La Possession

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

Where La Possession is

Latitude -20.932987, longitude 55.335704. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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La Possession elevation: 23 m (75 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 Possession'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.