Elevation of Vila do Maio, Maio, Cape Verde

Vila do Maio, Maio, Cape Verde is 40 m (131 ft) above sea level.

Vila do Maio's height from sea level is 40 metres, or 131 feet. GeoNames reads 22 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 82 m.

Also written: Porto Inglés Maio.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 160 m

Mean 25 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 160 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 22

among the towns of Cape Verde with a reading.

Nearest town

34.9 km to the W, at 11 m, 29 m lower.

Cross-section through Vila do Maio

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Vila do Maio; the vertical scale is the same on both.

58-2WE28.3 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.
58-2NS28.3 km
North to south: from 4 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Vila do Maio, 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 Vila do Maio

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Pedra Badejo (São Tiago) 34.9 kmW 11 m (36 ft) −29 m
São Domingos (São Tiago) 40 kmW 339 m (1,112 ft) +299 m
Praia (São Tiago) 40 kmSW 35 m (115 ft) −5 m

Where Vila do Maio is

Latitude 15.1375, longitude -23.2083333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Vila do Maio elevation: 40 m (131 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 Vila do Maio'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 22 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.