Elevation of Pouytenga, Kouritenga, Burkina Faso

Pouytenga, Kouritenga, Burkina Faso is 318 m (1,043 ft) above sea level.

Pouytenga's height from sea level is 318 metres, or 1,043 feet. GeoNames reads 318 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 313 m.

Ground within 5 km

293 m – 335 m

Mean 315 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 42 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 8

among the towns of Kouritenga, and 186th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

Sapaga

7.8 km to the S, at 304 m, 14 m lower.

Cross-section through Pouytenga

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 Pouytenga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 319 m at 14 km west to 323 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 305 m at 14 km north to 293 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Pouytenga, 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 Pouytenga

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Sapaga (Ganzourgou)	7.8 km	S	304 m (997 ft)	−14 m
Koupéla	11.7 km	SE	306 m (1,004 ft)	−12 m
Andemtenga	15.5 km	NE	320 m (1,050 ft)	+2 m
Doundoudougou	17.2 km	NE	308 m (1,010 ft)	−10 m
Zorgho (Ganzourgou)	19.9 km	W	311 m (1,020 ft)	−7 m

Where Pouytenga is

Latitude 12.25, longitude -0.4333333. 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 Pouytenga'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 318 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.