Elevation of Mbesa, Ruvuma, Tanzania

Mbesa, Ruvuma, Tanzania is 607 m (1,991 ft) above sea level.

Mbesa's height from sea level is 607 metres, or 1,991 feet. GeoNames reads 633 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

504 m – 712 m

Mean 594 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 208 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 11

among the towns of Ruvuma, and 396th of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

38.9 km to the NE, at 478 m, 129 m lower.

Cross-section through Mbesa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Mbesa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

722404WE28.5 km
West to east: from 448 m at 14 km west to 436 m at 14 km east.
722404NS28.5 km
North to south: from 526 m at 14 km north to 426 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mbesa, 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 Mbesa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
National 38.9 kmNE 478 m (1,568 ft) −129 m

Where Mbesa is

Latitude -11.45, longitude 37.2. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mbesa elevation: 607 m (1,991 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 Mbesa'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 633 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.