Elevation of Ouessa, Ioba, Burkina Faso

Ouessa, Ioba, Burkina Faso is 279 m (915 ft) above sea level.

Ouessa's height from sea level is 279 metres, or 915 feet. GeoNames reads 266 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

239 m – 295 m

Mean 266 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 56 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 6

among the towns of Ioba, and 459th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

5.3 km to the SE, at 273 m, 6 m lower.

Cross-section through Ouessa

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 Ouessa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

298237WE28.5 km
West to east: from 269 m at 14 km west to 286 m at 14 km east.
298237NS28.5 km
North to south: from 241 m at 14 km north to 271 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ouessa, 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 Ouessa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hamélé 5.3 kmSE 273 m (896 ft) −6 m
Bôn (Sissili) 16.5 kmN 249 m (817 ft) −30 m
Babora 17.1 kmW 284 m (932 ft) +5 m
Dissin 19.2 kmSW 298 m (978 ft) +19 m
Laro (Balé) 27.9 kmN 264 m (866 ft) −15 m

Where Ouessa is

Latitude 11.038255, longitude -2.779541. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ouessa elevation: 279 m (915 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 Ouessa'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 266 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.