Elevation of Forécariah, Basse Guinée, Guinea

Forécariah, Basse Guinée, Guinea is 17 m (56 ft) above sea level.

Forécariah's height from sea level is 17 metres, or 56 feet. GeoNames reads 32 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

7 m – 50 m

Mean 27 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 43 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 12

among the towns of Basse Guinée, and 37th of 39 in Guinea.

Nearest town

Kambia

39 km to the SE, at 41 m, 24 m higher.

Cross-section through Forécariah

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Forécariah; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 23 m at 14 km west to 32 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 103 m at 14 km north to 33 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 60 km around Forécariah, 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 Forécariah

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Kambia (Sierra Leone)	39 km	SE	41 m (135 ft)	+24 m

Peaks and passes near Forécariah

Férafari, peak at 562 m (1,844 ft), 24.5 km to the N — 545 m above the town.

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

Where Forécariah is

Latitude 9.4333333, longitude -13.0833333. 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 Forécariah'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 32 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.