Elevation of Boura, Sissili, Burkina Faso

Boura, Sissili, Burkina Faso is 284 m (932 ft) above sea level.

Boura's height from sea level is 284 metres, or 932 feet. GeoNames reads 282 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

268 m – 315 m

Mean 290 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 8

among the towns of Sissili, and 428th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

27.5 km to the W, at 273 m, 11 m lower.

Cross-section through Boura

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Boura; the vertical scale is the same on both.

334263WE28.5 km
West to east: from 296 m at 14 km west to 327 m at 14 km east.
334263NS28.5 km
North to south: from 288 m at 14 km north to 324 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Boura, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 60 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 Boura

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hamélé (Ioba) 27.5 kmW 273 m (896 ft) −11 m
Ouessa (Ioba) 30.5 kmW 279 m (915 ft) −5 m
Bôn 32 kmNW 249 m (817 ft) −35 m
Kelindou 38.2 kmNE 341 m (1,119 ft) +57 m

Where Boura is

Latitude 11.033333, longitude -2.5. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Boura elevation: 284 m (932 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 Boura'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 282 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.