Elevation of Vélé, Nord Extrème, Cameroon

Vélé, Nord Extrème, Cameroon is 319 m (1,047 ft) above sea level.

Vélé's height from sea level is 319 metres, or 1,047 feet. GeoNames reads 320 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

316 m – 321 m

Mean 318 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 5 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

24th of 34

among the towns of Nord Extrème, and 204th of 255 in Cameroon.

Nearest town

19.3 km to the SE, at 330 m, 11 m higher.

Cross-section through Vélé

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vélé; the vertical scale is the same on both.

354294WE28.5 km
West to east: from 317 m at 14 km west to 321 m at 14 km east.
354294NS28.5 km
North to south: from 318 m at 14 km north to 333 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Vélé, 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 Vélé

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Yagoua 19.3 kmSE 330 m (1,083 ft) +11 m
Bongor (Chad) 33.7 kmSE 332 m (1,089 ft) +13 m
Kalfou 35.1 kmSW 334 m (1,096 ft) +15 m
Wina 39.4 kmS 327 m (1,073 ft) +8 m

Where Vélé is

Latitude 10.5, longitude 15.166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vélé elevation: 319 m (1,047 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 Vélé'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.