Elevation of Banou, Balé, Burkina Faso

Banou, Balé, Burkina Faso is 291 m (955 ft) above sea level.

Banou's height from sea level is 291 metres, or 955 feet. GeoNames reads 288 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

278 m – 322 m

Mean 297 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 44 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 17

among the towns of Balé, and 385th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

8.7 km to the E, at 299 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Banou

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 Banou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

389263WE28.5 km
West to east: from 296 m at 14 km west to 295 m at 14 km east.
389263NS28.5 km
North to south: from 380 m at 14 km north to 307 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Banou, 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 Banou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bagassi 8.7 kmE 299 m (981 ft) +8 m
Mamou 11.8 kmW 315 m (1,033 ft) +24 m
Bana 16.8 kmN 359 m (1,178 ft) +68 m
Pompoï 17.5 kmNE 306 m (1,004 ft) +15 m
Yaho 20.4 kmW 297 m (974 ft) +6 m

Where Banou is

Latitude 11.766667, longitude -3.366667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Banou elevation: 291 m (955 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 Banou'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 288 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.