Elevation of Uka, Oromia, Ethiopia

Uka, Oromia, Ethiopia is 1,712 m (5,617 ft) above sea level.

Uka's height from sea level is 1,712 metres, or 5,617 feet. GeoNames reads 1,699 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

1,624 m – 1,754 m

Mean 1,679 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 130 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

217th of 284

among the towns of Oromia, and 442nd of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

5.1 km to the SW, at 1,652 m, 60 m lower.

Cross-section through Uka

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 Uka; the vertical scale is the same on both.

1,7881,587WE28.6 km
West to east: from 1,753 m at 14 km west to 1,733 m at 14 km east.
1,7881,587NS28.6 km
North to south: from 1,646 m at 14 km north to 1,670 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Uka, 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 Uka

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Halu 5.1 kmSW 1,652 m (5,420 ft) −60 m
Gore 17 kmE 1,876 m (6,155 ft) +164 m
Jare 17 kmE 1,876 m (6,155 ft) +164 m
Sibo 18.4 kmNW 1,705 m (5,594 ft) −7 m
Metu 26.5 kmNE 1,681 m (5,515 ft) −31 m

Where Uka is

Latitude 8.166667, longitude 35.383333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Uka elevation: 1,712 m (5,617 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 Uka'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 1,699 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.