Elevation of Rio das Ostras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Rio das Ostras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 5 m (16 ft) above sea level.

Rio das Ostras's height from sea level is 5 metres, or 16 feet. GeoNames reads 11 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 22 m

Mean 6 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 22 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

49th of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 978th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

Macaé

23.9 km to the NE, at 17 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Rio das Ostras

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Rio das Ostras; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 5 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 45 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Rio das Ostras, 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 Rio das Ostras

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Macaé	23.9 km	NE	17 m (56 ft)	+12 m
Armação dos Búzios	25.4 km	S	29 m (95 ft)	+24 m
Casimiro de Abreu	27.2 km	W	26 m (85 ft)	+21 m
São Pedro da Aldeia	38 km	SW	7 m (23 ft)	+2 m
Cabo Frio	39.8 km	S	10 m (33 ft)	+5 m

Where Rio das Ostras is

Latitude -22.5272771, longitude -41.9455901. 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 Rio das Ostras'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 11 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.