Elevation of Dera, Oromia, Ethiopia

Dera, Oromia, Ethiopia is 1,660 m (5,446 ft) above sea level.

Dera's height from sea level is 1,660 metres, or 5,446 feet. GeoNames reads 1,658 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,658 m.

Ground within 5 km

1,439 m – 1,752 m

Mean 1,635 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 313 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

235th of 284

among the towns of Oromia, and 464th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

7.4 km to the N, at 1,530 m, 130 m lower.

Cross-section through Dera

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 Dera; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,8431,517WE28.6 km
West to east: from 1,770 m at 14 km west to 1,592 m at 14 km east.
1,8431,517NS28.6 km
North to south: from 1,624 m at 14 km north to 1,820 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Dera, 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 Dera

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Awash Melkasa 7.4 kmN 1,530 m (5,020 ft) −130 m
Awsh Melkasa 7.4 kmN 1,530 m (5,020 ft) −130 m
Sodere 10.2 kmNE 1,421 m (4,662 ft) −239 m
Wonji 13.5 kmN 1,617 m (5,305 ft) −43 m
Sīrē 18 kmE 1,741 m (5,712 ft) +81 m

Peaks and passes near Dera

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

Where Dera is

Latitude 8.3333333, longitude 39.3166667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Dera elevation: 1,660 m (5,446 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 Dera'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 1,658 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.