Elevation of Yirga Alem, Southern, Ethiopia

Yirga Alem, Southern, Ethiopia is 1,740 m (5,709 ft) above sea level.

Yirga Alem's height from sea level is 1,740 metres, or 5,709 feet. GeoNames reads 1,778 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 1,776 m.

Also written: Yirga Alam Yirgalem Irgalem Dalle.

Ground within 5 km

1,683 m – 1,862 m

Mean 1,775 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 179 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

67th of 100

among the towns of Southern, and 429th of 645 in Ethiopia.

Nearest town

Kebado

13 km to the SW, at 1,812 m, 72 m higher.

Cross-section through Yirga Alem

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Yirga Alem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 1,703 m at 14 km west to 2,528 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 1,851 m at 14 km north to 1,880 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Yirga Alem, 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 Yirga Alem

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kebado	13 km	SW	1,812 m (5,945 ft)	+72 m
Leku	13.9 km	N	1,873 m (6,145 ft)	+133 m
Wendo	16.4 km	S	1,920 m (6,299 ft)	+180 m
Aleta Wendo	16.5 km	S	1,914 m (6,280 ft)	+174 m
Teferi Kela	27.9 km	S	1,867 m (6,125 ft)	+127 m

Where Yirga Alem is

Latitude 6.75, longitude 38.4166667. 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 Yirga Alem'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 1,778 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.