Elevation of Boala, Namentenga, Burkina Faso

Boala, Namentenga, Burkina Faso is 309 m (1,014 ft) above sea level.

Boala's height from sea level is 309 metres, or 1,014 feet. GeoNames reads 312 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

299 m – 334 m

Mean 314 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 35 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 20

among the towns of Namentenga, and 245th of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

10.6 km to the NW, at 321 m, 12 m higher.

Cross-section through Boala

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 Boala; the vertical scale is the same on both.

349289WE28.4 km
West to east: from 314 m at 14 km west to 321 m at 14 km east.
349289NS28.4 km
North to south: from 311 m at 14 km north to 315 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Boala, 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 Boala

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lédéré 10.6 kmNW 321 m (1,053 ft) +12 m
Zaongo 13.6 kmE 297 m (974 ft) −12 m
Tébéré (Sanmatenga) 16.5 kmN 308 m (1,010 ft) −1 m
Bonam 16.8 kmSE 332 m (1,089 ft) +23 m
Issaogo (Sanmatenga) 17.5 kmN 321 m (1,053 ft) +12 m

Where Boala is

Latitude 12.8833333, longitude -0.7. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Boala elevation: 309 m (1,014 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 Boala'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.