Elevation of Sawariwau, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana

Sawariwau, Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, Guyana is 147 m (482 ft) above sea level.

Sawariwau's height from sea level is 147 metres, or 482 feet. GeoNames reads 151 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

133 m – 171 m

Mean 144 m across the 10.2 km square centred on the town, 38 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

10th of 25

among the towns of Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo, and 29th of 515 in Guyana.

Nearest town

23.3 km to the N, at 248 m, 101 m higher.

Cross-section through Sawariwau

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 Sawariwau; the vertical scale is the same on both.

192114WE28.7 km
West to east: from 141 m at 14 km west to 120 m at 14 km east.
192114NS28.7 km
North to south: from 139 m at 14 km north to 173 m at 14 km south.
Shaded relief of the 60 km around Sawariwau, 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 Sawariwau

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Shiriri 23.3 kmN 248 m (814 ft) +101 m

Where Sawariwau is

Latitude 2.68, longitude -59.65. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Sawariwau elevation: 147 m (482 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 Sawariwau'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 151 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.