Elevation of Bourou, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso

Bourou, Boulkiemdé, Burkina Faso is 323 m (1,060 ft) above sea level.

Bourou's height from sea level is 323 metres, or 1,060 feet. GeoNames reads 316 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

306 m – 344 m

Mean 322 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 38 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 30

among the towns of Boulkiemdé, and 157th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

5.7 km to the N, at 326 m, 3 m higher.

Cross-section through Bourou

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bourou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

348288WE28.4 km
West to east: from 330 m at 14 km west to 317 m at 14 km east.
348288NS28.4 km
North to south: from 321 m at 14 km north to 335 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bourou, 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 Bourou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Savili 5.7 kmN 326 m (1,070 ft) +3 m
Soula 6.9 kmW 326 m (1,070 ft) +3 m
Nabadogo 10.4 kmNW 323 m (1,060 ft) same
Douré 13.4 kmN 315 m (1,033 ft) −8 m
Sakoinsé 16.9 kmNE 315 m (1,033 ft) −8 m

Where Bourou is

Latitude 12.05, longitude -2.02. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bourou elevation: 323 m (1,060 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 Bourou'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 316 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.