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Waterloo topographic map

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Name: Waterloo topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Waterloo, Western Area Rural, Western Area, Sierra Leone (8.17898 -13.22957 8.49898 -12.90957)

Average elevation: 70 m

Minimum elevation: -4 m

Maximum elevation: 874 m

The town of Waterloo is located some 20 miles from Freetown at 8.33833 degree latitude, -13.0719 degree longitude at an elevation of 40 meters. With a population estimated at approximately 40,000. It is the second largest city in the Western Area and an important crossroad where roads connecting provincial capitals and the Sierra Leone peninsula to the nation’s capital meet. The prosperity which reigned in Waterloo throughout the 19th and 20th centuries was shattered by the outbreak of the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s, during which rebel soldiers pillaged and ravaged homes, schools, churches, offices, and government buildings, with many inhabitants fleeing the town.