Elevation of Matoury, Cayenne, French Guiana

Matoury, Cayenne, French Guiana is 12 m (39 ft) above sea level.

Matoury's height from sea level is 12 metres, or 39 feet. GeoNames reads 13 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 10 m.

Ground within 5 km

2 m – 188 m

Mean 21 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 186 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 10

among the towns of Cayenne, and 9th of 16 in French Guiana.

Nearest town

7.4 km to the NE, at 12 m, the same elevation.

Cross-section through Matoury

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 Matoury; the vertical scale is the same on both.

55-5WE28.7 km
West to east: from 12 m at 14 km west to 24 m at 14 km east.
55-5NS28.7 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 21 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Matoury, 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 Matoury

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Remire-Montjoly 7.4 kmNE 12 m (39 ft) same
Cayenne 8.4 kmN 13 m (43 ft) +1 m
Macouria 8.7 kmNW 9 m (30 ft) −3 m
Roura 13.7 kmS 56 m (184 ft) +44 m

Where Matoury is

Latitude 4.847214, longitude -52.33112. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Matoury elevation: 12 m (39 ft) above sea level

A small badge with the town's elevation, linking back here. The number updates if the grid reading ever changes.

About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Matoury'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 13 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.