Elevation of Papara, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia

Papara, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia is 45 m (148 ft) above sea level.

Papara's height from sea level is 45 metres, or 148 feet. GeoNames reads 74 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 1,194 m

Mean 239 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 1,194 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 28

among the towns of Îles du Vent, and 39th of 116 in French Polynesia.

Nearest town

Mataiea

10.3 km to the E, at 6 m, 39 m lower.

Cross-section through Papara

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Papara; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 81 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 701 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Papara, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 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 Papara

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mataiea	10.3 km	E	6 m (20 ft)	−39 m
Paea	11.1 km	NW	2 m (7 ft)	−43 m
Papeari	16.7 km	E	29 m (95 ft)	−16 m
Punaauia	17.3 km	NW	190 m (623 ft)	+145 m
Pirae	20.2 km	N	779 m (2,556 ft)	+734 m

Peaks and passes near Papara

Mont Orohena, peak at 2,241 m (7,352 ft), 15.6 km to the N — 2,196 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Papara is

Latitude -17.758333, longitude -149.508333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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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 Papara'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 74 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.