Elevation of Siou, Balé, Burkina Faso

Siou, Balé, Burkina Faso is 315 m (1,033 ft) above sea level.

Siou's height from sea level is 315 metres, or 1,033 feet. GeoNames reads 320 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

290 m – 420 m

Mean 323 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 130 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 17

among the towns of Balé, and 203rd of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

6 km to the NW, at 321 m, 6 m higher.

Cross-section through Siou

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 Siou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

360285WE28.4 km
West to east: from 336 m at 14 km west to 302 m at 14 km east.
360285NS28.4 km
North to south: from 309 m at 14 km north to 314 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Siou, 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 Siou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Safané (Mouhoun) 6 kmNW 321 m (1,053 ft) +6 m
Datomo (Mouhoun) 18.5 kmS 312 m (1,024 ft) −3 m
Oury 22.3 kmSE 284 m (932 ft) −31 m
Tchériba (Mouhoun) 24.8 kmNE 300 m (984 ft) −15 m
Kona (Mouhoun) 25 kmW 299 m (981 ft) −16 m

Where Siou is

Latitude 12.08, longitude -3.2. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Siou elevation: 315 m (1,033 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 Siou'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 320 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.