Elevation of Pissila, Sanmatenga, Burkina Faso

Pissila, Sanmatenga, Burkina Faso is 312 m (1,024 ft) above sea level.

Pissila's height from sea level is 312 metres, or 1,024 feet. GeoNames reads 312 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 312 m.

Ground within 5 km

295 m – 322 m

Mean 307 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 27 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 23

among the towns of Sanmatenga, and 223rd of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

9.3 km to the S, at 311 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Pissila

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 Pissila; the vertical scale is the same on both.

339279WE28.4 km
West to east: from 313 m at 14 km west to 301 m at 14 km east.
339279NS28.4 km
North to south: from 305 m at 14 km north to 322 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Pissila, 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 Pissila

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Tibtenga 9.3 kmS 311 m (1,020 ft) −1 m
Noaka 14.3 kmW 314 m (1,030 ft) +2 m
Issaogo 16.3 kmSE 321 m (1,053 ft) +9 m
Tébéré 18.4 kmSE 308 m (1,010 ft) −4 m
Dibilou 23.3 kmNW 310 m (1,017 ft) −2 m

Where Pissila is

Latitude 13.1637, longitude -0.81943. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Pissila elevation: 312 m (1,024 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 Pissila'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 312 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.