Elevation of Bure, Afar, Ethiopia

Bure, Afar, Ethiopia is 510 m (1,673 ft) above sea level.

Bure's height from sea level is 510 metres, or 1,673 feet. GeoNames reads 514 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

483 m – 559 m

Mean 524 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 76 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 16

among the towns of Afar, and 617th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

Manda

23.2 km to the SW, at 663 m, 153 m higher.

Cross-section through Bure

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Bure; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 513 m at 14 km west to 583 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 470 m at 14 km north to 636 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bure, 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 Bure

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Manda	23.2 km	SW	663 m (2,175 ft)	+153 m

Peaks and passes near Bure

Gâgou, peak at 2,028 m (6,654 ft), 21.2 km to the SE — 1,518 m above the town.
Musa Ālī Terara, volcano at 2,021 m (6,631 ft), 20.6 km to the SE — 1,511 m above the town.
Ale-tole-dola, hill at 866 m (2,841 ft), 20.1 km to the SW — 356 m above the town.

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

Where Bure is

Latitude 12.6, longitude 42.266667. 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 Bure'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 514 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.