Elevation of Bigene, Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau

Bigene, Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau is 20 m (66 ft) above sea level.

Bigene's height from sea level is 20 metres, or 66 feet. GeoNames reads 14 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

4 m – 49 m

Mean 24 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 45 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

4th of 9

among the towns of Cacheu, and 27th of 44 in Guinea-Bissau.

Nearest town

25.5 km to the S, at 18 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Bigene

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 Bigene; the vertical scale is the same on both.

56-4WE28.4 km
West to east: from 40 m at 14 km west to 22 m at 14 km east.
56-4NS28.4 km
North to south: from 27 m at 14 km north to 39 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Bigene, 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 Bigene

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bissorã (Oio) 25.5 kmS 18 m (59 ft) −2 m
Olossato (Oio) 26.9 kmSE 10 m (33 ft) −10 m
Ingoré 28.2 kmW 23 m (75 ft) +3 m
Sédhiou (Senegal) 29.5 kmN 18 m (59 ft) −2 m
Farim (Oio) 35.6 kmE 17 m (56 ft) −3 m

Where Bigene is

Latitude 12.44, longitude -15.5416667. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Bigene 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 Bigene'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 14 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.