Elevation of Baie-Mahault, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

Baie-Mahault, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Baie-Mahault's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 18 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 52 m

Mean 11 m across the 10 km square centred on the town, 52 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

8th of 13

among the towns of Basse-Terre, and 16th of 28 in Guadeloupe.

Nearest town

5.3 km to the W, at 22 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Baie-Mahault

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.2 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Baie-Mahault; the vertical scale is the same on both.

233-18WE28.2 km
West to east: from 215 m at 14 km west to 74 m at 14 km east.
233-18NS28.2 km
North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 44 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 59 km around Baie-Mahault, 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 Baie-Mahault

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Lamentin 5.3 kmW 22 m (72 ft) +2 m
Petit-Bourg 8.2 kmS 29 m (95 ft) +9 m
Les Abymes (Grande-Terre) 9.5 kmE 30 m (98 ft) +10 m
Le Gosier (Grande-Terre) 12 kmSE 19 m (62 ft) −1 m
Point-à-Pitre (Grande-Terre) 13.3 kmE 53 m (174 ft) +33 m

Where Baie-Mahault is

Latitude 16.260117, longitude -61.590296. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Baie-Mahault elevation: 20 m (66 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 Baie-Mahault'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 18 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.