Elevation of Sama, Banwa, Burkina Faso

Sama, Banwa, Burkina Faso is 296 m (971 ft) above sea level.

Sama's height from sea level is 296 metres, or 971 feet. GeoNames reads 295 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

284 m – 313 m

Mean 299 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 29 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

14th of 20

among the towns of Banwa, and 350th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

8.6 km to the NW, at 308 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Sama

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 Sama; the vertical scale is the same on both.

370276WE28.5 km
West to east: from 334 m at 14 km west to 283 m at 14 km east.
370276NS28.5 km
North to south: from 305 m at 14 km north to 352 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sama, 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 Sama

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Fini 8.6 kmNW 308 m (1,010 ft) +12 m
Djigouéma (Houet) 10.8 kmSE 325 m (1,066 ft) +29 m
Diontala 13.9 kmW 334 m (1,096 ft) +38 m
Kouka 14 kmN 315 m (1,033 ft) +19 m
Kimini (Houet) 16.7 kmNE 290 m (951 ft) −6 m

Where Sama is

Latitude 11.76781, longitude -4.3221809. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sama elevation: 296 m (971 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 Sama'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 295 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.