Elevation of Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil is 871 m (2,858 ft) above sea level.

Alfenas's height from sea level is 871 metres, or 2,858 feet. GeoNames reads 887 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

778 m – 916 m

Mean 842 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 138 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

30th of 118

among the towns of Minas Gerais, and 73rd of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

25.8 km to the S, at 848 m, 23 m lower.

Cross-section through Alfenas

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 Alfenas; the vertical scale is the same on both.

929751WE27.8 km
West to east: from 764 m at 14 km west to 764 m at 14 km east.
929751NS27.8 km
North to south: from 808 m at 14 km north to 852 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Alfenas, 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 Alfenas

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Machado 25.8 kmS 848 m (2,782 ft) −23 m

Where Alfenas is

Latitude -21.4294353, longitude -45.9471225. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Alfenas elevation: 871 m (2,858 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 Alfenas'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 887 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.