Cilaos
Cilaos is a town and commune on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. It is located centrally on the island, in a caldera of altitude 1,214 m. The caldera is also named for the community.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Cirque de Cilaos and Église Notre-Dame-des-Neiges.
Cirque de Cilaos
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Cirque de Cilaos is a cirque mostly located in Réunion National Park. As it is in the inner zone of the park, it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, providing some excellent hiking opportunities and some jaw dropping waterfalls.
Église Notre-Dame-des-Neiges
Church
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Église Notre-Dame-des-Neiges is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Îlet à Cordes and Peter Both.
Îlet à Cordes
Village
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Îlet à Cordes is a village, which is situated 4 km west of Cilaos.
Peter Both
Village
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Peter Both is a village, which is situated 4 km south of Cilaos.
Marla
Hamlet
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Marla is a hamlet, which is situated 5 km northwest of Cilaos.
Cilaos
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Cilaos, Arrondissement de Saint-Pierre, La Reunion, Réunion, East African Islands, Africa
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Latitude
-21.13606° or 21° 8′ 10″ southLongitude
55.47252° or 55° 28′ 21″ eastPopulation
5,390Elevation
1,217 metres (3,993 feet)Open location code
5HCQVF7F+H2OpenStreetMap ID
node 1824134704OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
935975Wikidata ID
Q1014746
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Cilaos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Cilaos”
- Arabic: “سيلاوس”
- Aragonese: “Cilaos”
- Arpitan: “Cilaos”
- Asturian: “Cilaos”
- Bambara: “Cilaos”
- Basque: “Cilaos”
- Bavarian: “Cilaos”
- Breton: “Cilaos”
- Cajun French: “Cilaos”
- Catalan: “Cilaos”
- Cebuano: “Cilaos”
- Chechen: “Силао”
- Chinese: “锡拉奥斯”
- Corsican: “Cilaos”
- Croatian: “Cilaos”
- Czech: “Cilaos”
- Danish: “Cilaos”
- Dutch: “Cilaos”
- Esperanto: “Cilaos”
- Estonian: “Cilaos”
- Faroese: “Cilaos”
- Finnish: “Cilaos”
- French: “Cilaos”
- French: “Cirque de Cilaos”
- French: “Unité urbaine de Cilaos”
- Friulian: “Cilaos”
- Galician: “Cilaos”
- German: “Cilaos”
- Greek: “Σιλαός”
- Hebrew: “קילאו”
- Hungarian: “Cilaos”
- Icelandic: “Cilaos”
- Ido: “Cilaos”
- Indonesian: “ba”
- Interlingua: “Cilaos”
- Interlingue: “Cilaos”
- Irish: “Cilaos”
- Italian: “Cilaos”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Cilaos”
- Japanese: “シラオス”
- Kabyle: “Cilaos”
- Kalaallisut: “Cilaos”
- Kongo: “Cilaos”
- Ladin: “Cilaos”
- Latvian: “Cilaos”
- Ligurian: “Cilaos”
- Limburgan: “Cilaos”
- Lithuanian: “Cilaos”
- Low German: “Cilaos”
- Luxembourgish: “Cilaos”
- Mainfränkisch: “Cilaos”
- Malagasy: “Cilaos”
- Malay: “Cilaos”
- Marathi: “सिलाओस”
- Minangkabau: “Cilaos”
- Narom: “Cilaos”
- Neapolitan: “Cilaos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cilaos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cilaos”
- Norwegian: “Cilaos”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cilaos”
- Papiamento: “Cilaos”
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- Piemontese: “Cilaos”
- Polish: “Cilaos”
- Portuguese: “Cilaos”
- Prussian: “Cilaos”
- Romagnol: “Cilaos”
- Romanian: “Cilaos”
- Romansh: “Cilaos”
- Sardinian: “Cilaos”
- Scots: “Cilaos”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cilaos”
- Serbian: “Cilaos”
- Sicilian: “Cilaos”
- Slovak: “Cilaos”
- Spanish: “Cilaos”
- Swahili: “Cilaos”
- Swedish: “Cilaos”
- Swiss German: “Cilaos”
- Tatar: “Силао”
- Turkish: “Cilaos”
- Ukrainian: “Сілао”
- Venetian: “Cilaos”
- Vietnamese: “Cilaos”
- Vlaams: “Cilaos”
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- Walloon: “Cilaos”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cilaos”
- Welsh: “Cilaos”
- Wolof: “Cilaos”
- Zulu: “Cilaos”
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