Elevation of Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil is 958 m (3,143 ft) above sea level.

Contagem's height from sea level is 958 metres, or 3,143 feet. GeoNames reads 945 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 858 m.

Ground within 5 km

831 m – 994 m

Mean 922 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 163 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 118

among the towns of Minas Gerais, and 31st of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

9 km to the S, at 903 m, 55 m lower.

Cross-section through Contagem

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 Contagem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,111802WE27.9 km
West to east: from 824 m at 14 km west to 918 m at 14 km east.
1,111802NS27.9 km
North to south: from 850 m at 14 km north to 1,089 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Contagem, 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 Contagem

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ibirité 9 kmS 903 m (2,963 ft) −55 m
Belo Horizonte 12.1 kmE 867 m (2,844 ft) −91 m
Sarzedo 13.5 kmSW 756 m (2,480 ft) −202 m
Betim 15.6 kmW 846 m (2,776 ft) −112 m
Ribeirão das Neves 19.5 kmN 811 m (2,661 ft) −147 m

Peaks and passes near Contagem

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

Where Contagem is

Latitude -19.9385599, longitude -44.0529377. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Contagem elevation: 958 m (3,143 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 Contagem'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 945 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.