Elevation of Āk'ordat, Gash-Barka, Eritrea

Āk'ordat, Gash-Barka, Eritrea is 608 m (1,995 ft) above sea level.

Āk'ordat's height from sea level is 608 metres, or 1,995 feet. GeoNames reads 612 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 615 m.

Also written: Akordat Ākordat Akurdet Agordat.

Ground within 5 km

586 m – 792 m

Mean 626 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 206 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

2nd of 3

among the towns of Gash-Barka, and 10th of 14 in Eritrea.

Cross-section through Āk'ordat

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 Āk'ordat; the vertical scale is the same on both.

860550WE28.2 km
West to east: from 585 m at 14 km west to 637 m at 14 km east.
860550NS28.2 km
North to south: from 670 m at 14 km north to 683 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Āk'ordat, 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.

Where Āk'ordat is

Latitude 15.55, longitude 37.8833333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Āk'ordat elevation: 608 m (1,995 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 Āk'ordat'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 612 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.