Elevation of Mile, Afar, Ethiopia

Mile, Afar, Ethiopia is 492 m (1,614 ft) above sea level.

Mile's height from sea level is 492 metres, or 1,614 feet. GeoNames reads 491 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

461 m – 608 m

Mean 507 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 147 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 16

among the towns of Afar, and 619th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Cross-section through Mile

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 Mile; the vertical scale is the same on both.

692411WE28.5 km
West to east: from 587 m at 14 km west to 431 m at 14 km east.
692411NS28.5 km
North to south: from 599 m at 14 km north to 490 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Mile, 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.

Where Mile is

Latitude 11.4178599, longitude 40.761471. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Mile elevation: 492 m (1,614 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 Mile'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 491 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.