Elevation of Tanguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Tanguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 36 m (118 ft) above sea level.

Tanguá's height from sea level is 36 metres, or 118 feet. GeoNames reads 30 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 20 m to 65 m.

Ground within 5 km

26 m – 645 m

Mean 126 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 619 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 804th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

9.3 km to the E, at 111 m, 75 m higher.

Cross-section through Tanguá

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tanguá; the vertical scale is the same on both.

454-15WE27.6 km
West to east: from 18 m at 14 km west to 67 m at 14 km east.
454-15NS27.6 km
North to south: from 380 m at 14 km north to 421 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Tanguá, 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 Tanguá

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rio Bonito 9.3 kmE 111 m (364 ft) +75 m
Itaboraí 15.1 kmW 25 m (82 ft) −11 m
Maricá 23.4 kmSW 8 m (26 ft) −28 m
Cachoeiras de Macacu 30.5 kmN 78 m (256 ft) +42 m
Saquarema 31.3 kmSE 3 m (10 ft) −33 m

Where Tanguá is

Latitude -22.7321139, longitude -42.7124716. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tanguá elevation: 36 m (118 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 Tanguá'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 30 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.