Elevation of Jiga, Amhara, Ethiopia

Jiga, Amhara, Ethiopia is 1,837 m (6,027 ft) above sea level.

Jiga's height from sea level is 1,837 metres, or 6,027 feet. GeoNames reads 1,807 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,753 m – 1,928 m

Mean 1,836 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 175 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

105th of 143

among the towns of Amhara, and 387th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

9.8 km to the SE, at 2,028 m, 191 m higher.

Cross-section through Jiga

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 Jiga; the vertical scale is the same on both.

2,4591,725WE28.5 km
West to east: from 1,822 m at 14 km west to 2,408 m at 14 km east.
2,4591,725NS28.5 km
North to south: from 2,227 m at 14 km north to 1,992 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Jiga, 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 Jiga

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Yechereka 9.8 kmSE 2,028 m (6,654 ft) +191 m
Finote Selam 12.2 kmW 1,884 m (6,181 ft) +47 m
Dembecha 17.6 kmSE 2,093 m (6,867 ft) +256 m
Mankusa 22 kmW 1,998 m (6,555 ft) +161 m
Amanuel 32.7 kmSE 2,378 m (7,802 ft) +541 m

Where Jiga is

Latitude 10.66837, longitude 37.376099. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Jiga elevation: 1,837 m (6,027 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 Jiga'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 1,807 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.