Elevation of Barentu, Gash-Barka, Eritrea

Barentu, Gash-Barka, Eritrea is 1,004 m (3,294 ft) above sea level.

Barentu's height from sea level is 1,004 metres, or 3,294 feet. GeoNames reads 1,009 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,012 m.

Ground within 5 km

892 m – 1,106 m

Mean 1,012 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 214 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

1st of 3

among the towns of Gash-Barka, and 8th of 14 in Eritrea.

Cross-section through Barentu

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 Barentu; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,138776WE28.3 km
West to east: from 914 m at 14 km west to 1,098 m at 14 km east.
1,138776NS28.3 km
North to south: from 801 m at 14 km north to 930 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Barentu, 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.

Peaks and passes near Barentu

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

Where Barentu is

Latitude 15.11414, longitude 37.591202. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Barentu elevation: 1,004 m (3,294 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 Barentu'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 1,009 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.