Elevation of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil is 1,095 m (3,593 ft) above sea level.

Ouro Preto's height from sea level is 1,095 metres, or 3,593 feet. GeoNames reads 1,201 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,179 m.

Ground within 5 km

954 m – 1,603 m

Mean 1,257 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 649 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 118

among the towns of Minas Gerais, and 11th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

9.1 km to the E, at 734 m, 361 m lower.

Cross-section through Ouro Preto

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 Ouro Preto; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,496687WE27.9 km
West to east: from 1,111 m at 14 km west to 867 m at 14 km east.
1,496687NS27.9 km
North to south: from 841 m at 14 km north to 1,126 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Ouro Preto, 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 Ouro Preto

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Mariana 9.1 kmE 734 m (2,408 ft) −361 m
Ouro Branco 25.2 kmSW 1,026 m (3,366 ft) −69 m
Itabirito 35.1 kmNW 932 m (3,058 ft) −163 m
Congonhas 36.6 kmW 929 m (3,048 ft) −166 m

Where Ouro Preto is

Latitude -20.3856161, longitude -43.5034938. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ouro Preto elevation: 1,095 m (3,593 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 Ouro Preto'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 1,201 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.