Elevation of Busa, Oromia, Ethiopia

Busa, Oromia, Ethiopia is 2,780 m (9,121 ft) above sea level.

Busa's height from sea level is 2,780 metres, or 9,121 feet. GeoNames reads 2,735 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

2,588 m – 3,041 m

Mean 2,773 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 453 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 284

among the towns of Oromia, and 37th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

14.4 km to the S, at 2,419 m, 361 m lower.

Cross-section through Busa

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 Busa; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3,2452,078WE28.6 km
West to east: from 2,937 m at 14 km west to 2,159 m at 14 km east.
3,2452,078NS28.6 km
North to south: from 2,833 m at 14 km north to 2,367 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Busa, 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 Busa

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Dilala 14.4 kmS 2,419 m (7,936 ft) −361 m
Chitu 17.5 kmS 2,214 m (7,264 ft) −566 m
Asgori 23.6 kmN 2,446 m (8,025 ft) −334 m
Tulu Bolo 25 kmSE 2,192 m (7,192 ft) −588 m
Giyon 27.1 kmS 2,022 m (6,634 ft) −758 m

Where Busa is

Latitude 8.766667, longitude 38.016667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Busa elevation: 2,780 m (9,121 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 Busa'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 2,735 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.