Elevation of Kaya, Sanmatenga, Burkina Faso

Kaya, Sanmatenga, Burkina Faso is 331 m (1,086 ft) above sea level.

Kaya's height from sea level is 331 metres, or 1,086 feet. GeoNames reads 366 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 353 m.

Ground within 5 km

301 m – 385 m

Mean 336 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 84 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 23

among the towns of Sanmatenga, and 113th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

7.3 km to the S, at 322 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Kaya

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Kaya; the vertical scale is the same on both.

353292WE28.4 km
West to east: from 303 m at 14 km west to 317 m at 14 km east.
353292NS28.4 km
North to south: from 304 m at 14 km north to 298 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kaya, 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 Kaya

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Louda 7.3 kmS 322 m (1,056 ft) −9 m
Nèssèmtenga 10.1 kmSW 333 m (1,093 ft) +2 m
Biguissi 15.7 kmS 304 m (997 ft) −27 m
Noaka 18 kmNE 314 m (1,030 ft) −17 m
Boussouma 19.5 kmS 319 m (1,047 ft) −12 m

Where Kaya is

Latitude 13.0833333, longitude -1.0833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kaya elevation: 331 m (1,086 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 Kaya'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 366 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.