Elevation of Ambam, Sud, Cameroon

Ambam, Sud, Cameroon is 597 m (1,959 ft) above sea level.

Ambam's height from sea level is 597 metres, or 1,959 feet. GeoNames reads 570 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 570 m.

Ground within 5 km

573 m – 679 m

Mean 597 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 106 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 19

among the towns of Sud, and 142nd of 255 in Cameroon.

Nearest town

26.7 km to the S, at 565 m, 32 m lower.

Cross-section through Ambam

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Ambam; the vertical scale is the same on both.

656550WE28.7 km
West to east: from 593 m at 14 km west to 614 m at 14 km east.
656550NS28.7 km
North to south: from 588 m at 14 km north to 576 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Ambam, 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 Ambam

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Ebebiyin (Equatorial Guinea) 26.7 kmS 565 m (1,854 ft) −32 m
Olamze 27.2 kmSW 577 m (1,893 ft) −20 m

Where Ambam is

Latitude 2.384043, longitude 11.26637. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Ambam elevation: 597 m (1,959 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 Ambam'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 570 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.