Elevation of Dambam, Oudalan, Burkina Faso

Dambam, Oudalan, Burkina Faso is 272 m (892 ft) above sea level.

Dambam's height from sea level is 272 metres, or 892 feet. GeoNames reads 270 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Dèmbam.

Ground within 5 km

259 m – 303 m

Mean 276 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 44 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 4

among the towns of Oudalan, and 504th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

26.1 km to the S, at 255 m, 17 m lower.

Cross-section through Dambam

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Dambam; the vertical scale is the same on both.

322251WE28.3 km
West to east: from 302 m at 14 km west to 256 m at 14 km east.
322251NS28.3 km
North to south: from 272 m at 14 km north to 277 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Dambam, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 59 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 Dambam

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Falagountou (Séno) 26.1 kmS 255 m (837 ft) −17 m
Saouga 39.8 kmSW 269 m (883 ft) −3 m

Peaks and passes near Dambam

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Dambam is

Latitude 14.5917062, longitude 0.1424781. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dambam elevation: 272 m (892 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Dambam'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 270 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.