Elevation of Metarfa, Adrar, Algeria

Metarfa, Adrar, Algeria is 252 m (827 ft) above sea level.

Metarfa's height from sea level is 252 metres, or 827 feet. GeoNames reads 252 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 258 m.

Also written: الطارفة.

Ground within 5 km

227 m – 263 m

Mean 248 m across the 9.6 km square centred on the town, 36 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 19

among the towns of Adrar, and 461st of 707 in Algeria.

Nearest town

29 km to the S, at 251 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Metarfa

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Metarfa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

272211WE27 km
West to east: from 259 m at 14 km west to 268 m at 14 km east.
272211NS27 km
North to south: from 221 m at 14 km north to 263 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 57 km around Metarfa, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 57 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 Metarfa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tsabit 29 kmS 251 m (823 ft) −1 m
Deldoul 30.6 kmNE 218 m (715 ft) −34 m

Where Metarfa is

Latitude 28.583333, longitude -0.15. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Metarfa elevation: 252 m (827 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 Metarfa'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 252 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.