Elevation of Nefas Mewcha, Amhara, Ethiopia

Nefas Mewcha, Amhara, Ethiopia is 3,108 m (10,197 ft) above sea level.

Nefas Mewcha's height from sea level is 3,108 metres, or 10,197 feet. GeoNames reads 3,082 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 3,120 m.

Also written: Nefas Mewch'a.

Ground within 5 km

2,285 m – 3,338 m

Mean 2,906 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 1,053 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

3rd of 143

among the towns of Amhara, and 4th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

Amba Mariam

2.9 km to the N, at 3,075 m, 33 m lower.

Cross-section through Nefas Mewcha

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 Nefas Mewcha; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 3,075 m at 14 km west to 1,854 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 2,929 m at 14 km north to 2,654 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Nefas Mewcha, 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 Nefas Mewcha

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Amba Mariam	2.9 km	N	3,075 m (10,089 ft)	−33 m
Sali	13.2 km	W	2,949 m (9,675 ft)	−159 m
Gasay	36.6 km	W	2,830 m (9,285 ft)	−278 m
Amed Ber	39.3 km	S	2,405 m (7,890 ft)	−703 m

Where Nefas Mewcha is

Latitude 11.73, longitude 38.47. 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 Nefas Mewcha'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 3,082 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.