Elevation of Chala, Rukwa, Tanzania

Chala, Rukwa, Tanzania is 1,749 m (5,738 ft) above sea level.

Chala's height from sea level is 1,749 metres, or 5,738 feet. GeoNames reads 1,765 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,602 m – 2,260 m

Mean 1,808 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 658 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 21

among the towns of Rukwa, and 25th of 482 in Tanzania.

Nearest town

27 km to the NW, at 1,548 m, 201 m lower.

Cross-section through Chala

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 Chala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,1491,526WE28.6 km
West to east: from 1,602 m at 14 km west to 1,796 m at 14 km east.
2,1491,526NS28.6 km
North to south: from 1,689 m at 14 km north to 1,663 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Chala, 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 Chala

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Namanyere 27 kmNW 1,548 m (5,079 ft) −201 m
Muze 32.3 kmE 855 m (2,805 ft) −894 m
Mamba 33.3 kmN 1,038 m (3,406 ft) −711 m

Where Chala is

Latitude -7.6020908, longitude 31.2683591. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chala elevation: 1,749 m (5,738 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 Chala'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 1,765 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.