Elevation of Āwash, Afar, Ethiopia

Āwash, Afar, Ethiopia is 904 m (2,966 ft) above sea level.

Āwash's height from sea level is 904 metres, or 2,966 feet. GeoNames reads 912 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 986 m.

Also written: Awash Fentale Hawash Awash Sebat Kilo.

Ground within 5 km

840 m – 1,199 m

Mean 933 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 359 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 16

among the towns of Afar, and 594th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

29.4 km to the W, at 961 m, 57 m higher.

Cross-section through Āwash

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Āwash; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,129793WE28.6 km
West to east: from 1,010 m at 14 km west to 1,026 m at 14 km east.
1,129793NS28.6 km
North to south: from 820 m at 14 km north to 1,105 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Āwash, 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 Āwash

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Metehara (Oromia) 29.4 kmW 961 m (3,153 ft) +57 m

Where Āwash is

Latitude 8.9944444, longitude 40.1666667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Āwash elevation: 904 m (2,966 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 Āwash'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 912 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.