Elevation of Gēdo, Oromia, Ethiopia

Gēdo, Oromia, Ethiopia is 2,453 m (8,048 ft) above sea level.

Gēdo's height from sea level is 2,453 metres, or 8,048 feet. GeoNames reads 2,500 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Gedo.

Ground within 5 km

1,954 m – 2,760 m

Mean 2,393 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 806 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

63rd of 284

among the towns of Oromia, and 128th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

10.7 km to the SW, at 1,981 m, 472 m lower.

Cross-section through Gēdo

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 Gēdo; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,9361,718WE28.6 km
West to east: from 1,802 m at 14 km west to 2,001 m at 14 km east.
2,9361,718NS28.6 km
North to south: from 2,852 m at 14 km north to 1,888 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Gēdo, 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 Gēdo

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Meti 10.7 kmSW 1,981 m (6,499 ft) −472 m
Mako 11.4 kmNW 2,912 m (9,554 ft) +459 m
Ejaji 13.8 kmW 1,710 m (5,610 ft) −743 m
Goben 28 kmNW 2,435 m (7,989 ft) −18 m
Birbirsa 33.5 kmE 2,228 m (7,310 ft) −225 m

Where Gēdo is

Latitude 9.016667, longitude 37.45. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Gēdo elevation: 2,453 m (8,048 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 Gēdo'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 2,500 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.