Elevation of Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil is 22 m (72 ft) above sea level.

Fortaleza's height from sea level is 22 metres, or 72 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 21 m.

Also written: Ceará Jurema Antônio Bezerra.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 45 m

Mean 15 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 45 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

41st of 46

among the towns of Ceará, and 863rd of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

Caucaia

12.7 km to the W, at 24 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Fortaleza

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 Fortaleza; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 28 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 26 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Fortaleza, 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 Fortaleza

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Caucaia	12.7 km	W	24 m (79 ft)	+2 m
Maracanaú	20 km	SW	51 m (167 ft)	+29 m
Eusébio	21.7 km	SE	31 m (102 ft)	+9 m
Maranguape	24.6 km	SW	71 m (233 ft)	+49 m
Aquiraz	26.7 km	SE	24 m (79 ft)	+2 m

Where Fortaleza is

Latitude -3.7183943, longitude -38.5433948. 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 Fortaleza'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 18 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.