Elevation of Sao, Kourwéogo, Burkina Faso

Sao, Kourwéogo, Burkina Faso is 330 m (1,083 ft) above sea level.

Sao's height from sea level is 330 metres, or 1,083 feet. GeoNames reads 329 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

315 m – 361 m

Mean 336 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 46 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 10

among the towns of Kourwéogo, and 120th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

7.8 km to the W, at 340 m, 10 m higher.

Cross-section through Sao

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 Sao; the vertical scale is the same on both.

360300WE28.4 km
West to east: from 328 m at 14 km west to 308 m at 14 km east.
360300NS28.4 km
North to south: from 324 m at 14 km north to 345 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sao, 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 Sao

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Boussé 7.8 kmW 340 m (1,115 ft) +10 m
Kaonghin 11.3 kmE 311 m (1,020 ft) −19 m
Laye 13.1 kmSE 331 m (1,086 ft) +1 m
Napalgué 13.2 kmNW 344 m (1,129 ft) +14 m
Koui 17.1 kmE 306 m (1,004 ft) −24 m

Where Sao is

Latitude 12.63, longitude -1.82. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sao elevation: 330 m (1,083 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 Sao'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 329 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.