Elevation of Fara, Balé, Burkina Faso

Fara, Balé, Burkina Faso is 255 m (837 ft) above sea level.

Fara's height from sea level is 255 metres, or 837 feet. GeoNames reads 264 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

251 m – 300 m

Mean 267 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 49 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

17th of 17

among the towns of Balé, and 563rd of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

Kabourou

11.7 km to the S, at 296 m, 41 m higher.

Cross-section through Fara

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 Fara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 255 m at 14 km west to 271 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 244 m at 14 km north to 277 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Fara, 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 Fara

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kabourou	11.7 km	S	296 m (971 ft)	+41 m
Brédié (Sissili)	13.5 km	NE	275 m (902 ft)	+20 m
Toné	17.1 km	S	266 m (873 ft)	+11 m
Naton (Sanguié)	24.3 km	W	256 m (840 ft)	+1 m
Laro	27.8 km	S	264 m (866 ft)	+9 m

Where Fara is

Latitude 11.52195, longitude -2.756939. 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 Fara'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 264 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.