Grand Place
Grand Place is a village in the commune La Possession in the French overseas department of La Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean. The hamlet is situated in the Cirque de Mafate, a caldera of the Piton des Neiges volcano, which is part of the Réunion National Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Réunion’s National Park
- Also known as: “Grand Place, Réunion” and “Grande Place”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Piton des Calumets and Piton Cabris.
Piton Cabris
Peak
Photo: Lobeseb, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Piton Cabris is a peak, which is situated 2½ km north of Grand Place.
Bronchard
Peak
Photo: Bouba, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bronchard is a peak, which is situated 3 km south of Grand Place.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Les Lataniers and Cirque de Mafate.
Cirque de Mafate
Photo: Fabimaru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cirque de Mafate is a cirque in Réunion National Park, the western of the three craters on the extinct volcano Piton des Neiges on the volcanic island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.
Grand Place
- Categories: îlet and locality
- Location: La Possession, Arrondissement de Saint-Paul, La Reunion, Réunion, East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude
-21.04145° or 21° 2′ 29″ southLongitude
55.41216° or 55° 24′ 44″ eastElevation
777 metres (2,549 feet)Open location code
5HCQXC56+CVOpenStreetMap ID
node 299979838OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
“Grand Place” goes by many names.
- French: “Grand Place”
- French: “Grand-Place”
- French: “Grann Place”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Grand Place”. Photo: Georgina123 007, CC BY-SA 4.0.