Elevation of Debre Selam, Oromia, Ethiopia

Debre Selam, Oromia, Ethiopia is 1,404 m (4,606 ft) above sea level.

Debre Selam's height from sea level is 1,404 metres, or 4,606 feet. GeoNames reads 1,323 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,323 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,266 m – 1,628 m

Mean 1,422 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 362 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

269th of 284

among the towns of Oromia, and 542nd of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

24.5 km to the E, at 1,393 m, 11 m lower.

Cross-section through Debre Selam

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 Debre Selam; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,5521,221WE28.6 km
West to east: from 2,460 m at 14 km west to 1,385 m at 14 km east.
2,5521,221NS28.6 km
North to south: from 1,708 m at 14 km north to 1,488 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Debre Selam, 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 Debre Selam

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Furda 24.5 kmE 1,393 m (4,570 ft) −11 m
Derba 27.7 kmNE 1,798 m (5,899 ft) +394 m
Chole 34.3 kmW 2,564 m (8,412 ft) +1,160 m

Peaks and passes near Debre Selam

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

Where Debre Selam is

Latitude 8.25, longitude 40.133333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Debre Selam elevation: 1,404 m (4,606 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 Debre Selam'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 1,323 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.