Elevation of Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil

Paulo Afonso, Bahia, Brazil is 252 m (827 ft) above sea level.

Paulo Afonso's height from sea level is 252 metres, or 827 feet. GeoNames reads 245 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 243 m to 279 m.

Ground within 5 km

199 m – 278 m

Mean 252 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 79 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

29th of 66

among the towns of Bahia, and 570th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

26.4 km to the E, at 242 m, 10 m lower.

Cross-section through Paulo Afonso

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Paulo Afonso; the vertical scale is the same on both.

356190WE28.6 km
West to east: from 327 m at 14 km west to 238 m at 14 km east.
356190NS28.6 km
North to south: from 260 m at 14 km north to 298 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Paulo Afonso, 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 Paulo Afonso

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Delmiro Gouveia (Alagoas) 26.4 kmE 242 m (794 ft) −10 m
Petrolândia (Pernambuco) 38.3 kmN 347 m (1,138 ft) +95 m

Where Paulo Afonso is

Latitude -9.4109704, longitude -38.2358445. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Paulo Afonso elevation: 252 m (827 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Paulo Afonso'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 245 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.