Elevation of Guékédou, Guinée Forestière, Guinea

Guékédou, Guinée Forestière, Guinea is 461 m (1,512 ft) above sea level.

Guékédou's height from sea level is 461 metres, or 1,512 feet. GeoNames reads 430 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Guéckédou Guéckédougou.

Ground within 5 km

428 m – 528 m

Mean 461 m across the 10.1 km square centred on the town, 100 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

7th of 8

among the towns of Guinée Forestière, and 17th of 39 in Guinea.

Nearest town

35.7 km to the SW, at 403 m, 58 m lower.

Cross-section through Guékédou

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 Guékédou; the vertical scale is the same on both.

555410WE28.6 km
West to east: from 431 m at 14 km west to 542 m at 14 km east.
555410NS28.6 km
North to south: from 435 m at 14 km north to 471 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Guékédou, 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 Guékédou

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Foya (Liberia) 35.7 kmSW 403 m (1,322 ft) −58 m
Koindu (Sierra Leone) 36.8 kmSW 380 m (1,247 ft) −81 m

Where Guékédou is

Latitude 8.5666667, longitude -10.1333333. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Guékédou elevation: 461 m (1,512 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 Guékédou'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 430 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.