Elevation of Gwanda, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe

Gwanda, Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe is 1,001 m (3,284 ft) above sea level.

Gwanda's height from sea level is 1,001 metres, or 3,284 feet. GeoNames reads 986 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 982 m.

Also written: Jawunda.

Ground within 5 km

958 m – 1,116 m

Mean 1,016 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 158 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 11

among the towns of Matabeleland South, and 70th of 91 in Zimbabwe.

Nearest town

Colleen Bawn

21.9 km to the E, at 948 m, 53 m lower.

Cross-section through Gwanda

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.8 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gwanda; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 978 m at 14 km west to 988 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,035 m at 14 km north to 974 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Gwanda, 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 Gwanda

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Colleen Bawn	21.9 km	E	948 m (3,110 ft)	−53 m

Peaks and passes near Gwanda

Makolombe, hill at 1,351 m (4,432 ft), 4.4 km to the W — 350 m above the town.
Masholomoshe, hill at 1,205 m (3,953 ft), 8.5 km to the NE — 204 m above the town.
Bambanika, hill at 1,123 m (3,684 ft), 19.5 km to the E — 122 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Gwanda is

Latitude -20.940121, longitude 29.015711. 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 Gwanda'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 986 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.