Elevation of Lephalale, Limpopo, South Africa

Lephalale, Limpopo, South Africa is 824 m (2,703 ft) above sea level.

Lephalale's height from sea level is 824 metres, or 2,703 feet. GeoNames reads 824 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 824 m.

Also written: Onverwacht Marapong Ellisras.

Ground within 5 km

818 m – 858 m

Mean 833 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 40 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 21

among the towns of Limpopo, and 201st of 294 in South Africa.

Nearest town

7.4 km to the SW, at 851 m, 27 m higher.

Cross-section through Lephalale

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lephalale; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,005804WE27.5 km
West to east: from 875 m at 14 km west to 876 m at 14 km east.
1,005804NS27.5 km
North to south: from 838 m at 14 km north to 967 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Lephalale, 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 Lephalale

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Matopi (Botswana) 7.4 kmSW 851 m (2,792 ft) +27 m

Where Lephalale is

Latitude -23.6679989, longitude 27.748831. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lephalale elevation: 824 m (2,703 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 Lephalale'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 824 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.