Elevation of Kankalaba, Léraba, Burkina Faso

Kankalaba, Léraba, Burkina Faso is 507 m (1,663 ft) above sea level.

Kankalaba's height from sea level is 507 metres, or 1,663 feet. GeoNames reads 497 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

433 m – 576 m

Mean 524 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 143 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 6

among the towns of Léraba, and 10th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

15.3 km to the NE, at 512 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Kankalaba

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 Kankalaba; the vertical scale is the same on both.

617343WE28.5 km
West to east: from 598 m at 14 km west to 496 m at 14 km east.
617343NS28.5 km
North to south: from 535 m at 14 km north to 362 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kankalaba, 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 Kankalaba

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Sokouraba (Kénédougou) 15.3 kmNE 512 m (1,680 ft) +5 m
Sindou 15.7 kmSE 385 m (1,263 ft) −122 m
Douna 23.2 kmSE 305 m (1,001 ft) −202 m
Kangala (Kénédougou) 24.3 kmN 558 m (1,831 ft) +51 m
Kotoura (Kénédougou) 24.5 kmN 540 m (1,772 ft) +33 m

Peaks and passes near Kankalaba

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

Where Kankalaba is

Latitude 10.75, longitude -5.28. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kankalaba elevation: 507 m (1,663 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 Kankalaba'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 497 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.