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Curepipe

Curepipe is a sprawling town in the centre of . 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Trou aux Cerfs and Curepipe Botanic Gardens.

Volcano
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is a dormant, crater lake, cinder cone volcano with a well-defined cone and crater. It is 605 m high and located in Curepipe, .

Park
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in Route des Jardins, Curepipe, is the second largest botanical garden in . It has a relatively informal layout, and contains a river, lake and the world's rarest palm tree among other attractions.

College
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The is the most prestigious secondary school in , with extremely high admission standards. Since 1791 it has been regarded as a school of excellence and started to build a consistent laureateship from the 1800s and now has 207 years of laureateship.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Vacoas-Phoenix and Glen Park.

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also known as French: Villes Jumelles, is a town in , located in the , the eastern part also lies in the .

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Vacoas-Phoenix also known as French: Villes Jumelles, is a town in , located in the , the eastern part also lies in the .

Curepipe

Latitude
-20.3151° or 20° 18′ 54″ south
Longitude
57.5212° or 57° 31′ 16″ east
Population
81,600
Elevation
559 metres (1,834 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MU CUR
Open location code
5HFVMGMC+XF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2642246014
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
934570
Wiki­data ID
Q1002525
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Curepipe” goes by many names.
  • 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”
  • Irish: “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: “Кјурпајп”
  • Serbian: “Курепипе”
  • Silesian: “Curepipe”
  • Spanish: “Curepipe”
  • Swahili: “Curepipe”
  • Swedish: “Curepipe (ort i Mauritius)”
  • Swedish: “Curepipe”
  • Tatar: “Курепипе”
  • Thai: “กูร์ปิป”
  • Thai: “กูร์ปีป”
  • Ukrainian: “Кьюрпайп”
  • Urdu: “کیورپیپہ”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Curepipe”. Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.