Elevation of Makanya, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Makanya, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania is 674 m (2,211 ft) above sea level.

Makanya's height from sea level is 674 metres, or 2,211 feet. GeoNames reads 681 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

638 m – 1,233 m

Mean 723 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 595 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 16

among the towns of Kilimanjaro, and 392nd of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

19 km to the SE, at 643 m, 31 m lower.

Cross-section through Makanya

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Makanya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,173491WE28.7 km
West to east: from 623 m at 14 km west to 1,580 m at 14 km east.
2,173491NS28.7 km
North to south: from 950 m at 14 km north to 607 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Makanya, 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 Makanya

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hedaru 19 kmSE 643 m (2,110 ft) −31 m
Bwagamoyo (Manyara) 21.8 kmS 580 m (1,903 ft) −94 m
Ndungu 27.1 kmE 531 m (1,742 ft) −143 m
Kihurio 30.4 kmSE 515 m (1,690 ft) −159 m
Same 33.5 kmN 923 m (3,028 ft) +249 m

Where Makanya is

Latitude -4.3589834, longitude 37.8220414. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Makanya elevation: 674 m (2,211 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 Makanya'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 681 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.