Elevation of Altos, Piauí, Brazil

Altos, Piauí, Brazil is 188 m (617 ft) above sea level.

Altos's height from sea level is 188 metres, or 617 feet. GeoNames reads 192 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 130 m to 187 m.

Ground within 5 km

158 m – 257 m

Mean 193 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 99 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 9

among the towns of Piauí, and 615th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

38.1 km to the W, at 86 m, 102 m lower.

Cross-section through Altos

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Altos; the vertical scale is the same on both.

267116WE28.7 km
West to east: from 209 m at 14 km west to 164 m at 14 km east.
267116NS28.7 km
North to south: from 174 m at 14 km north to 132 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Altos, 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 Altos

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Teresina 38.1 kmW 86 m (282 ft) −102 m
Campo Maior 39.9 kmNE 124 m (407 ft) −64 m

Where Altos is

Latitude -5.0399092, longitude -42.4612491. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Altos elevation: 188 m (617 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 Altos'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 192 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.