Elevation of Bama, Houet, Burkina Faso

Bama, Houet, Burkina Faso is 305 m (1,001 ft) above sea level.

Bama's height from sea level is 305 metres, or 1,001 feet. GeoNames reads 304 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

296 m – 343 m

Mean 315 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

27th of 36

among the towns of Houet, and 283rd of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

10.3 km to the NW, at 305 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Bama

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 Bama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

443289WE28.5 km
West to east: from 337 m at 14 km west to 334 m at 14 km east.
443289NS28.5 km
North to south: from 306 m at 14 km north to 358 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bama, 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 Bama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Samandéni 10.3 kmNW 305 m (1,001 ft) same
Desso 14.4 kmE 327 m (1,073 ft) +22 m
Séguéré 17.4 kmN 302 m (991 ft) −3 m
Dawera 24.2 kmSE 419 m (1,375 ft) +114 m
Bobo Dioulasso 25.5 kmSE 418 m (1,371 ft) +113 m

Peaks and passes near Bama

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

Where Bama is

Latitude 11.37379, longitude -4.413216. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bama elevation: 305 m (1,001 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 Bama'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 304 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.