Elevation of Matourkou, Houet, Burkina Faso

Matourkou, Houet, Burkina Faso is 388 m (1,273 ft) above sea level.

Matourkou's height from sea level is 388 metres, or 1,273 feet. GeoNames reads 395 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

363 m – 482 m

Mean 416 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 119 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

5th of 36

among the towns of Houet, and 20th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

9.1 km to the NW, at 370 m, 18 m lower.

Cross-section through Matourkou

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 Matourkou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

501321WE28.5 km
West to east: from 455 m at 14 km west to 345 m at 14 km east.
501321NS28.5 km
North to south: from 441 m at 14 km north to 335 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Matourkou, 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 Matourkou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Koumi 9.1 kmNW 370 m (1,214 ft) −18 m
Noumoudara 11.6 kmS 348 m (1,142 ft) −40 m
Bobo Dioulasso 13.9 kmNE 418 m (1,371 ft) +30 m
Dawera 14.6 kmNE 419 m (1,375 ft) +31 m
Péni 18.2 kmSW 518 m (1,699 ft) +130 m

Where Matourkou is

Latitude 11.08, longitude -4.37. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Matourkou elevation: 388 m (1,273 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 Matourkou'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 395 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.