Elevation of Mattru, Southern, Sierra Leone

Mattru, Southern, Sierra Leone is 16 m (52 ft) above sea level.

Mattru's height from sea level is 16 metres, or 52 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Matru.

Ground within 5 km

5 m – 131 m

Mean 30 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 126 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

23rd of 25

among the towns of Southern, and 86th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

23.2 km to the NW, at 39 m, 23 m higher.

Cross-section through Mattru

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 Mattru; the vertical scale is the same on both.

52-8WE28.6 km
West to east: from 17 m at 14 km west to 34 m at 14 km east.
52-8NS28.6 km
North to south: from 29 m at 14 km north to 6 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mattru, 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 Mattru

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mogbemo 23.2 kmNW 39 m (128 ft) +23 m
Sumbuya 23.9 kmE 21 m (69 ft) +5 m
Serabu 24.9 kmNE 56 m (184 ft) +40 m
Tongola (Eastern) 35.3 kmSE 10 m (33 ft) −6 m
Bonthe 37 kmW 7 m (23 ft) −9 m

Where Mattru is

Latitude 7.606444, longitude -12.178984. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mattru elevation: 16 m (52 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 Mattru'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 22 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.