Elevation of Desē, Amhara, Ethiopia

Desē, Amhara, Ethiopia is 2,493 m (8,179 ft) above sea level.

Desē's height from sea level is 2,493 metres, or 8,179 feet. GeoNames reads 2,494 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 2,470 m.

Also written: Dessie Dessye Dasse Dessē.

Ground within 5 km

1,969 m – 2,908 m

Mean 2,501 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 939 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

47th of 143

among the towns of Amhara, and 113th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

Tita

5.7 km to the NE, at 2,466 m, 27 m lower.

Cross-section through Desē

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Desē; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 2,639 m at 14 km west to 2,248 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,489 m at 14 km north to 2,777 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Desē, 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 Desē

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Tita	5.7 km	NE	2,466 m (8,091 ft)	−27 m
Sulula	12.5 km	NE	2,243 m (7,359 ft)	−250 m
Kembolcha	13.4 km	SE	1,951 m (6,401 ft)	−542 m
Kutaber	18.4 km	NW	2,806 m (9,206 ft)	+313 m
Ancharo	18.8 km	SE	2,044 m (6,706 ft)	−449 m

Where Desē is

Latitude 11.1333333, longitude 39.6333333. 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 Desē'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 2,494 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.