Elevation of Mahon, Kénédougou, Burkina Faso

Mahon, Kénédougou, Burkina Faso is 573 m (1,880 ft) above sea level.

Mahon's height from sea level is 573 metres, or 1,880 feet. GeoNames reads 565 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

468 m – 584 m

Mean 559 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 116 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 19

among the towns of Kénédougou, and 1st of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

8.3 km to the S, at 558 m, 15 m lower.

Cross-section through Mahon

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 Mahon; the vertical scale is the same on both.

595427WE28.5 km
West to east: from 562 m at 14 km west to 528 m at 14 km east.
595427NS28.5 km
North to south: from 509 m at 14 km north to 533 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mahon, 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 Mahon

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kangala 8.3 kmS 558 m (1,831 ft) −15 m
Kotoura 9.7 kmSW 540 m (1,772 ft) −33 m
Ouolonkoto 10.6 kmNE 432 m (1,417 ft) −141 m
Koloko 11.5 kmNW 536 m (1,759 ft) −37 m
Samogohiri 16.3 kmSE 517 m (1,696 ft) −56 m

Where Mahon is

Latitude 11.03629, longitude -5.22287. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mahon elevation: 573 m (1,880 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 Mahon'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 565 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.