Elevation of Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Formiga, Minas Gerais, Brazil is 838 m (2,749 ft) above sea level.

Formiga's height from sea level is 838 metres, or 2,749 feet. GeoNames reads 841 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 785 m to 820 m.

Ground within 5 km

800 m – 960 m

Mean 876 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 160 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 118

among the towns of Minas Gerais, and 98th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

21.7 km to the NW, at 783 m, 55 m lower.

Cross-section through Formiga

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 Formiga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,088787WE27.9 km
West to east: from 890 m at 14 km west to 1,009 m at 14 km east.
1,088787NS27.9 km
North to south: from 960 m at 14 km north to 808 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Formiga, 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 Formiga

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Arcos 21.7 kmNW 783 m (2,569 ft) −55 m

Where Formiga is

Latitude -20.4616347, longitude -45.4328351. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Formiga elevation: 838 m (2,749 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 Formiga'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 841 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.