Elevation of Desso, Houet, Burkina Faso

Desso, Houet, Burkina Faso is 327 m (1,073 ft) above sea level.

Desso's height from sea level is 327 metres, or 1,073 feet. GeoNames reads 321 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

304 m – 405 m

Mean 344 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 101 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

20th of 36

among the towns of Houet, and 130th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

Bama

14.4 km to the W, at 305 m, 22 m lower.

Cross-section through Desso

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 Desso; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 314 m at 14 km west to 380 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 303 m at 14 km north to 380 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Desso, 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 Desso

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Bama	14.4 km	W	305 m (1,001 ft)	−22 m
Dawera	17.9 km	S	419 m (1,375 ft)	+92 m
Léguéma	18.2 km	SE	370 m (1,214 ft)	+43 m
Bobo Dioulasso	19.1 km	S	418 m (1,371 ft)	+91 m
Sala	20.1 km	E	359 m (1,178 ft)	+32 m

Peaks and passes near Desso

Kanso, hill at 448 m (1,470 ft), 5.3 km to the E — 121 m above the town.

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

Where Desso is

Latitude 11.35, longitude -4.283333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Desso'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 321 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.