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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 ...
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] The crater was formed less than 2 million years ago in the second phase of volcanic activity that created Mauritius. [3]
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.
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Le Morne Brabant [lə mɔʁn bʁa.bɑ̃] is a peninsula at the extreme southwestern tip of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. On it is a basaltic monolith of the same name 556 metres (1,824 ft) high. Its summit covers an area of over 12 hectares (30 acres). There are many caves and overhangs on the steep slopes.
The Royal College Curepipe is one of the oldest educational institutions of the Republic of Mauritius. The history of the Royal College Curepipe stretches back to 1791 when the predecessor of the Royal College of Curepipe, the Collège National also known as the Collège Colonial was founded in Port Louis.
Mare aux Vacoas. Mare aux Vacoas is the largest reservoir in Mauritius. It is located in Plaines Wilhems, in the southwest of the island, to the south of the town of Curepipe. It has a capacity of 25,890,000 cubic metres (914,000,000 cu ft) and provides water to the upper Plaines Wilhems and to Moka. It was constructed in 1885.