Elevation of Mèlou, Nayala, Burkina Faso

Mèlou, Nayala, Burkina Faso is 265 m (869 ft) above sea level.

Mèlou's height from sea level is 265 metres, or 869 feet. GeoNames reads 263 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

254 m – 288 m

Mean 268 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 34 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

12th of 13

among the towns of Nayala, and 534th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

Gossina

13.9 km to the NE, at 270 m, 5 m higher.

Cross-section through Mèlou

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 Mèlou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 290 m at 14 km west to 272 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 294 m at 14 km north to 279 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mèlou, 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 Mèlou

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Gossina	13.9 km	NE	270 m (886 ft)	+5 m
Sankoué	17.5 km	N	309 m (1,014 ft)	+44 m
Tchériba (Mouhoun)	22.8 km	SW	300 m (984 ft)	+35 m
Kwon	23.8 km	NE	283 m (928 ft)	+18 m
Tiogo (Sanguié)	25.5 km	SE	273 m (896 ft)	+8 m

Where Mèlou is

Latitude 12.416667, longitude -2.933333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Mèlou'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 263 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.