Elevation of Ourense, Galicia, Spain

Ourense, Galicia, Spain is 153 m (502 ft) above sea level.

Ourense's height from sea level is 153 metres, or 502 feet. GeoNames reads 146 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 145 m.

Also written: Orense.

Ground within 4 km

110 m – 446 m

Mean 245 m across the 8.9 km square centred on the town, 336 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

26th of 77

among the towns of Galicia, and 516th of 1,000 in Spain.

Nearest town

Barbadás

4.9 km to the SW, at 255 m, 102 m higher.

Cross-section through Ourense

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ourense; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 162 m at 13 km west to 569 m at 13 km east.

North to south: from 553 m at 13 km north to 547 m at 13 km south.

Shaded relief of the 52 km around Ourense, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 52 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 Ourense

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Barbadás	4.9 km	SW	255 m (837 ft)	+102 m
O Carballiño	20.1 km	NW	391 m (1,283 ft)	+238 m
Chantada	30.8 km	N	515 m (1,690 ft)	+362 m
Xinzo de Limia	32.8 km	S	622 m (2,041 ft)	+469 m
Monforte de Lemos	35.2 km	NE	302 m (991 ft)	+149 m

Where Ourense is

Latitude 42.3400086, longitude -7.8646408. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Ourense'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 146 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.