Elevation of Boussouma, Sanmatenga, Burkina Faso

Boussouma, Sanmatenga, Burkina Faso is 319 m (1,047 ft) above sea level.

Boussouma's height from sea level is 319 metres, or 1,047 feet. GeoNames reads 319 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 337 m.

Ground within 5 km

291 m – 428 m

Mean 327 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 137 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 23

among the towns of Sanmatenga, and 181st of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

7.4 km to the NW, at 304 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Boussouma

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 Boussouma; the vertical scale is the same on both.

402268WE28.4 km
West to east: from 283 m at 14 km west to 295 m at 14 km east.
402268NS28.4 km
North to south: from 319 m at 14 km north to 291 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Boussouma, 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 Boussouma

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Biguissi 7.4 kmNW 304 m (997 ft) −15 m
Korsimoro 9.5 kmS 289 m (948 ft) −30 m
Louda 12.7 kmN 322 m (1,056 ft) +3 m
Fatin 13.9 kmE 309 m (1,014 ft) −10 m
Foulla 14 kmSE 296 m (971 ft) −23 m

Where Boussouma is

Latitude 12.9082552, longitude -1.0765746. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Boussouma elevation: 319 m (1,047 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 Boussouma'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 319 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.