Elevation of Chekfa, Jijel, Algeria

Chekfa, Jijel, Algeria is 83 m (272 ft) above sea level.

Chekfa's height from sea level is 83 metres, or 272 feet. GeoNames reads 70 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: aš-Šiqfah Chefka الشقفة.

Ground within 5 km

9 m – 680 m

Mean 174 m across the 9.2 km square centred on the town, 671 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 13

among the towns of Jijel, and 595th of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

10 km to the W, at 47 m, 36 m lower.

Cross-section through Chekfa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 25.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Chekfa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

747-56WE25.9 km
West to east: from 64 m at 13 km west to 182 m at 13 km east.
747-56NS25.9 km
North to south: from 0 m at 13 km north to 578 m at 13 km south.
Shaded relief of the 54 km around Chekfa, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 54 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 Chekfa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Emir Abdelkader 10 kmW 47 m (154 ft) −36 m
Chahana 10.6 kmS 686 m (2,251 ft) +603 m
Sidi Abdelaziz 12.4 kmNE 36 m (118 ft) −47 m
Kaous 13.1 kmW 63 m (207 ft) −20 m
Jijel 18 kmW 22 m (72 ft) −61 m

Where Chekfa is

Latitude 36.772659, longitude 5.958971. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Chekfa elevation: 83 m (272 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 Chekfa'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 70 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.