Sentence examples for miles in elevation from inspiring English sources

It is about 300 kilometers (188 miles) wide, 1,000 kilometers (625 miles) long and some 3,800 meters (two miles) in elevation and is home to Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world.

Much of the town of Armero, built on a low plain beside the Lagunilla River 50 km (30 miles) east of and nearly 5 km (3 miles) in elevation below the summit of Ruiz, was buried by the mudflows.

Great views (if it's clear) as you gain about a mile in elevation.

"Those are the times you don't dare go outside". Along the toll road from New Hampshire 16 to the summit, a visitor climbs about a mile in elevation.

The tribe and its environmentalist allies worry that Cadiz will be drawing water from an aquifer shared by Bonanza Spring, which is about 10 miles north of the project site and a quarter-mile higher in elevation.

Three-fourths of Wyoming lies more than 1 mile (1.6 km) in elevation, and two-fifths exceeds 7,000 feet (2,100 metres).

Across the county line in the town of Caton, NY 225 continues west through the gully for another 2 mile, slowly rising in elevation as it heads past a small number of isolated homes.

Denver's location on the 105th meridian at over one mile (1.6 km) in elevation also enables it to be the largest city in the U.S. to offer a "one-bounce" real-time satellite uplink to six continents in the same business day.

A complex system of mountain ranges, some 50 miles in width and varying in elevation from 8,000 to 14,000 feet, lie between the Mahābhārat Range and the Great Himalayas.

My partner, recognizing the vast difference between 15 and 22 miles (and another thousand feet in elevation), declined.

And they bring pests and diseases with them". Several miles and 2,500 feet higher in elevation is the Barcroft White Mountain Research Station, operated by the University of California, where studies of the effects of high altitude on physiology are conducted along with a range of other projects.