Elevation of Essau, Kerewan, Gambia

Essau, Kerewan, Gambia is 9 m (30 ft) above sea level.

Essau's height from sea level is 9 metres, or 30 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 26 m

Mean 4 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 26 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

42nd of 45

among the towns of Kerewan, and 263rd of 285 in Gambia.

Nearest town

1.7 km to the NE, at 17 m, 8 m higher.

Cross-section through Essau

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Essau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

47-14WE28.4 km
West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 33 m at 14 km east.
47-14NS28.4 km
North to south: from 3 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Essau, 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 Essau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Medina Kanuma 1.7 kmNE 17 m (56 ft) +8 m
Barra 1.8 kmNW 3 m (10 ft) −6 m
Galoya 3.2 kmSE 0 m (0 ft) −9 m
Banjul (Banjul) 5.8 kmSW 5 m (16 ft) −4 m
Lamin 10.7 kmSW 2 m (7 ft) −7 m

Where Essau is

Latitude 13.47844, longitude -16.5302599. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Essau elevation: 9 m (30 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 Essau'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 12 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.