Elevation of Makali, Northern, Sierra Leone

Makali, Northern, Sierra Leone is 302 m (991 ft) above sea level.

Makali's height from sea level is 302 metres, or 991 feet. GeoNames reads 291 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

257 m – 416 m

Mean 328 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 159 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 31

among the towns of Northern, and 23rd of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

16.2 km to the W, at 186 m, 116 m lower.

Cross-section through Makali

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 Makali; the vertical scale is the same on both.

589185WE28.6 km
West to east: from 257 m at 14 km west to 383 m at 14 km east.
589185NS28.6 km
North to south: from 323 m at 14 km north to 527 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Makali, 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 Makali

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Masiaka 16.2 kmW 186 m (610 ft) −116 m
Yele (Southern) 22.4 kmSW 162 m (531 ft) −140 m
Magburaka 33.7 kmW 97 m (318 ft) −205 m
Masingbi 36.4 kmNW 116 m (381 ft) −186 m

Where Makali is

Latitude 8.622851, longitude -11.65923. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Makali elevation: 302 m (991 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 Makali'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 291 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.