Elevation of Tarrafal, São Tiago, Cape Verde

Tarrafal, São Tiago, Cape Verde is 113 m (371 ft) above sea level.

Tarrafal's height from sea level is 113 metres, or 371 feet. GeoNames reads 17 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 159 m.

Also written: Vila do Tarrafal.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 378 m

Mean 72 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 378 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 9

among the towns of São Tiago, and 12th of 22 in Cape Verde.

Nearest town

São Miguel

15 km to the SE, at 326 m, 213 m higher.

Cross-section through Tarrafal

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Tarrafal; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 205 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Tarrafal, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Tarrafal

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
São Miguel	15 km	SE	326 m (1,070 ft)	+213 m
Assomada	21.5 km	SE	538 m (1,765 ft)	+425 m
Picos	24.9 km	SE	319 m (1,047 ft)	+206 m
João Teves	25.5 km	SE	312 m (1,024 ft)	+199 m
Ribeira Grande	25.5 km	SE	312 m (1,024 ft)	+199 m

Peaks and passes near Tarrafal

Monte Graciosa, peak at 643 m (2,110 ft), 2.8 km to the N — 530 m above the town.

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

Where Tarrafal is

Latitude 15.275, longitude -23.7541667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Tarrafal'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 17 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.