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Curepipe (Mauritian Creole pronunciation: [kiːəpip]) also known as La Ville-Lumière (The City of Light), is a town in Mauritius, located mainly in the Plaines Wilhems District. Its eastern part lies in the Moka District. The town is administered by the Municipal Council of Curepipe. Curepipe lies at a higher elevation, often referred to as ...
Curepipe Botanic Gardens. Coordinates: 20.3291°S 57.5244°E. View near the gardens' main lake. Curepipe Botanic Gardens (or SSR Botanical Garden of Curepipe) in Route des Jardins, Curepipe, is the second largest botanical garden in Mauritius. It has a relatively informal layout, and contains a river, lake and the world's rarest palm tree among ...
Easiest route. Car/Walking. Trou aux Cerfs (also known as Murr's Volcano) is a dormant, cinder cone volcano with a well-defined cone and crater. It is 605 m (1,985 ft) high and located in Curepipe, Mauritius. The crater has been alternately described as 300 [1] and 350 meters in diameter, [2] and is 80 meters deep. [2]
Mauritius, [a] officially the Republic of Mauritius, [b] is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about 2,000 kilometres (1,100 nautical miles) off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Agaléga, and St. Brandon (Cargados Carajos shoals).
The nature park entrance is located just off the A10 road, in the region of Forest Side, about 3 kilometres south-east of the Curepipe Town Centre. View over the indigenous forest canopy from lookout point. It is the most easily accessed of any indigenous Mauritian forest, being closest to any central urban area.
The Royal College Curepipe (commonly known as RCC) is considered as the most prestigious secondary school with extremely high admission standards in Curepipe, Mauritius. Since 1791 it has been regarded as a school of excellence and started to build a consistent laureateship from the 1800s. In the past, it only admitted boys with the best ...
History of Mauritius. The first Jews arrived in Mauritius from Haifa, British Palestine (now Israel), in the 1940s because they were denied entry to Palestine by the British Government. [1][page needed] According to the 2011 census, there were about 43 Jews in Mauritius; [2] by 2022, it was reported that there were 100 Jews in the country.
UTC+4 (MUT) ISO 3166 code. MU-PW (P laines W ilhems) Plaines Wilhems (Mauritian Creole pronunciation: [plɛn wilɛmz]) is a district of Mauritius. It is the most populous district, with an estimated population of 366,506 at the end of 2018. [1] The district is mainly urban; it consists of four towns, the village of Midlands and part of two ...