Elevation of Valença, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Valença, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is 555 m (1,821 ft) above sea level.

Valença's height from sea level is 555 metres, or 1,821 feet. GeoNames reads 560 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 560 m to 612 m.

Ground within 5 km

513 m – 862 m

Mean 604 m across the 9.8 km square centred on the town, 349 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 52

among the towns of Rio de Janeiro, and 360th of 997 in Brazil.

Nearest town

18.1 km to the S, at 427 m, 128 m lower.

Cross-section through Valença

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 Valença; the vertical scale is the same on both.

807335WE27.7 km
West to east: from 544 m at 14 km west to 571 m at 14 km east.
807335NS27.7 km
North to south: from 679 m at 14 km north to 368 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 58 km around Valença, 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 Valença

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Vassouras 18.1 kmS 427 m (1,401 ft) −128 m
Barra do Piraí 28 kmSW 375 m (1,230 ft) −180 m

Where Valença is

Latitude -22.2459534, longitude -43.7031346. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Valença elevation: 555 m (1,821 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 Valença'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 560 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.