Elevation of Kotoura, Kénédougou, Burkina Faso

Kotoura, Kénédougou, Burkina Faso is 540 m (1,772 ft) above sea level.

Kotoura's height from sea level is 540 metres, or 1,772 feet. GeoNames reads 540 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

526 m – 573 m

Mean 547 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 47 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 19

among the towns of Kénédougou, and 4th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

3.3 km to the E, at 558 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through Kotoura

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 Kotoura; the vertical scale is the same on both.

586505WE28.5 km
West to east: from 511 m at 14 km west to 522 m at 14 km east.
586505NS28.5 km
North to south: from 546 m at 14 km north to 532 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Kotoura, 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 Kotoura

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kangala 3.3 kmE 558 m (1,831 ft) +18 m
Mahon 9.7 kmNE 573 m (1,880 ft) +33 m
Koloko 13.2 kmN 536 m (1,759 ft) −4 m
Samogohiri 17.2 kmE 517 m (1,696 ft) −23 m
Sokouraba 17.4 kmSE 512 m (1,680 ft) −28 m

Where Kotoura is

Latitude 10.97, longitude -5.28. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kotoura elevation: 540 m (1,772 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 Kotoura'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 540 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.