Elevation of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil is 867 m (2,844 ft) above sea level.

Belo Horizonte's height from sea level is 867 metres, or 2,844 feet. GeoNames reads 872 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 760 m.

Also written: Bello Horizonte Cidade de Minas.

Ground within 5 km

802 m – 1,241 m

Mean 913 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 439 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

31st of 118

among the towns of Minas Gerais, and 75th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

Contagem

12.1 km to the W, at 958 m, 91 m higher.

Cross-section through Belo Horizonte

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Belo Horizonte; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 919 m at 14 km west to 798 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 812 m at 14 km north to 1,021 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Belo Horizonte, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Belo Horizonte

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Contagem	12.1 km	W	958 m (3,143 ft)	+91 m
Nova Lima	12.3 km	SE	761 m (2,497 ft)	−106 m
Sabará	14.4 km	E	731 m (2,398 ft)	−136 m
Ibirité	16.6 km	SW	903 m (2,963 ft)	+36 m
Santa Luzia	19.1 km	NE	723 m (2,372 ft)	−144 m

Peaks and passes near Belo Horizonte

Morro do Gama, hill at 1,518 m (4,980 ft), 22.5 km to the S — 651 m above the town.
Morro do Pires, hill at 1,379 m (4,524 ft), 14.1 km to the SE — 512 m above the town.
Morro da Cachaça, hill at 1,019 m (3,343 ft), 17.3 km to the SE — 152 m above the town.

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

Where Belo Horizonte is

Latitude -19.9190677, longitude -43.9385747. 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 Belo Horizonte'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 872 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.