Elevation of Tougan, Sourou, Burkina Faso

Tougan, Sourou, Burkina Faso is 305 m (1,001 ft) above sea level.

Tougan's height from sea level is 305 metres, or 1,001 feet. GeoNames reads 300 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 300 m.

Ground within 5 km

279 m – 319 m

Mean 298 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 40 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 16

among the towns of Sourou, and 283rd of 585 in Burkina Faso.

Nearest town

8.2 km to the SE, at 291 m, 14 m lower.

Cross-section through Tougan

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 Tougan; the vertical scale is the same on both.

320259WE28.4 km
West to east: from 264 m at 14 km west to 313 m at 14 km east.
320259NS28.4 km
North to south: from 284 m at 14 km north to 299 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Tougan, 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 Tougan

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Kassan 8.2 kmSE 291 m (955 ft) −14 m
Daka 10.4 kmN 288 m (945 ft) −17 m
Boussoum 15.7 kmNE 296 m (971 ft) −9 m
Kouy 16.9 kmNW 267 m (876 ft) −38 m
Da 18.7 kmSE 297 m (974 ft) −8 m

Peaks and passes near Tougan

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Tougan is

Latitude 13.0666667, longitude -3.0666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Tougan elevation: 305 m (1,001 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 Tougan'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 300 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.