Elevation of Pirae, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia
Pirae, Îles du Vent, French Polynesia is 779 m (2,556 ft) above sea level.
Pirae's height from sea level is 779 metres, or 2,556 feet. GeoNames reads 779 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 5 km
Mean 658 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 1,313 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Pirae
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 Pirae; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Pirae
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arue | 5.1 km | N | 116 m (381 ft) | −663 m |
| Papeete | 6.8 km | NW | 4 m (13 ft) | −775 m |
| Faaa | 8.3 km | W | 44 m (144 ft) | −735 m |
| Mahina | 8.5 km | NE | 13 m (43 ft) | −766 m |
| Punaauia | 10 km | SW | 190 m (623 ft) | −589 m |
Peaks and passes near Pirae
- Mont Orohena, peak at 2,241 m (7,352 ft), 6.3 km to the SE — 1,462 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Pirae is
Latitude -17.577554, longitude -149.5239147. 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 Pirae'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 779 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.