Elevation of Potoru, Southern, Sierra Leone

Potoru, Southern, Sierra Leone is 84 m (276 ft) above sea level.

Potoru's height from sea level is 84 metres, or 276 feet. GeoNames reads 85 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

64 m – 110 m

Mean 87 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 46 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 25

among the towns of Southern, and 56th of 97 in Sierra Leone.

Nearest town

12.8 km to the SW, at 66 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Potoru

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 Potoru; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11656WE28.6 km
West to east: from 64 m at 14 km west to 104 m at 14 km east.
11656NS28.6 km
North to south: from 91 m at 14 km north to 67 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Potoru, 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 Potoru

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Foindu 12.8 kmSW 66 m (217 ft) −18 m
Gbeworbu 15.1 kmW 78 m (256 ft) −6 m
Gorahun (Eastern) 26.8 kmE 136 m (446 ft) +52 m
Zimmi 28.3 kmSE 85 m (279 ft) +1 m
Bomi 29.2 kmS 36 m (118 ft) −48 m

Where Potoru is

Latitude 7.5048177, longitude -11.4779299. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Potoru elevation: 84 m (276 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 Potoru'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 85 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.