Curepipe
Curepipe is a sprawling town in the centre of Mauritius. At an altitude of 561 m, it marks the top of the ridge on the road between Port Louis and Vieux Grand Port, and the name may indicate that travellers rested here for long enough to smoke then clean out their clay pipes.Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Trou aux Cerfs
Volcano
Photo: S Molteno, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trou aux Cerfs is a dormant volcano with a well-defined cone and crater.
George V Stadium
Stadium
New George V Stadium is a football stadium in Curepipe, Mauritius. The stadium holds 6,500 people.
Curepipe Botanic Gardens
Park
Photo: Coolth, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Curepipe Botanic Gardens in Route des Jardins, Curepipe, is the second largest botanical garden in Mauritius.
Localities in the Area
Vacoas-Phoenix
Photo: Mauritian1, CC BY 3.0.
Vacoas-Phoenix or Phoenix is one of the major towns found in the island nation of Mauritius.
Glen Park
Quarter
Vacoas-Phoenix also known as French: Villes Jumelles, is a town in Mauritius, located in the Plaines Wilhems District, the eastern part also lies in the Moka District.
Curepipe
- Type: City with 81,600 residents
- Description: administrative territorial entity of Mauritius
- Categories: administrative territorial entity of Mauritius, human settlement, first-level administrative division, Wikimedia duplicated page and locality
- Location: Plaines Wilhems District, Mauritius, East African Islands, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-20.3151° or 20° 18' 54" southLongitude
57.5212° or 57° 31' 16" eastPopulation
81,600Elevation
559 metres (1,834 feet)United Nations Location Code
MU CUROpen Location Code
5HFVMGMC+XFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2642246014OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
934570Wikidata ID
Q1002525Curepipe Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Arabic: كوريبيب
- Arabic: كوريبيبي
- Basque: Curepipe
- Catalan: Curepipe
- Cebuano: Curepipe
- Chinese: 居尔皮普
- Chinese: 居爾派普
- Chinese: 居爾皮普
- Danish: Curepipe
- Dutch: Curepipe
- Egyptian Arabic: كوريبيب
- Esperanto: Curepipe
- French: Curepipe
- German: Curepipe
- Hungarian: Curepipe
- Indonesian: Curepipe
- Italian: Curepipe
- Japanese: キュールピップ
- Japanese: フロレアル
- Korean: 쿠레피페
- Lithuanian: Kiurpaipas
- Lithuanian: Kiurpipas
- Persian: کورپیپ
- Polish: Curepipe
- Portuguese: Curepipe
- Russian: Курепипе
- Russian: Кьюрпайп
- Russian: Кюрпип
- Serbian: Kjurpajp
- Serbian: Курепипе
- Serbian: Кјурпајп
- Silesian: Curepipe
- Spanish: Curepipe
- Swedish: Curepipe (ort i Mauritius)
- Swedish: Curepipe
- Tatar: Курепипе
- Thai: กูร์ปิป
- Thai: กูร์ปีป
- Ukrainian: Кьюрпайп
- Urdu: کیورپیپہ
Other Places Named Curepipe
Localities in the Area
- FlorealSuburb
- La VigieSuburb
- Cité AtleeNeighbourhood
- MangalkhanLocality
- Morcellement AntelmeNeighbourhood
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Curepipe. Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.