Elevation of Lethem, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana

Lethem, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana is 86 m (282 ft) above sea level.

Lethem's height from sea level is 86 metres, or 282 feet. GeoNames reads 90 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 85 m.

Ground within 5 km

79 m – 97 m

Mean 86 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 18 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

18th of 25

among the towns of Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, and 44th of 515 in Guyana.

Nearest town

6.7 km to the NE, at 84 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Lethem

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 28.7 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lethem; the vertical scale is the same on both.

11858WE28.7 km
West to east: from 90 m at 14 km west to 99 m at 14 km east.
11858NS28.7 km
North to south: from 77 m at 14 km north to 96 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Lethem, 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 Lethem

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Manari 6.7 kmNE 84 m (276 ft) −2 m
Moco Moco 15.8 kmE 111 m (364 ft) +25 m
Hiawa 18.6 kmE 107 m (351 ft) +21 m
Parishara 26.6 kmE 105 m (344 ft) +19 m
Nappi 29.3 kmE 819 m (2,687 ft) +733 m

Where Lethem is

Latitude 3.3833333, longitude -59.8. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lethem elevation: 86 m (282 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 Lethem'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 90 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.