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.
- Type: City with 81,600 residents
- Description: administrative territorial entity of Mauritius
- Also known as: “Curepipe (ort i Mauritius)”, “كوريبيبي”, “フロレアル”, and “居爾派普”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Trou aux Cerfs and Curepipe Botanic Gardens.
Trou aux Cerfs
Volcano
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vacoas-Phoenix and Glen Park.
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)
UN/LOCODE
MU CUR
Open location code
5HFVMGMC+XF
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Curepipe” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوريبيب”
- Asturian: “Curepipe”
- Basque: “Curepipe”
- Catalan: “Curepipe”
- Cebuano: “Curepipe”
- Chinese: “居尔皮普”
- Chinese: “居爾皮普”
- Czech: “Curepipe”
- Danish: “Curepipe”
- Dutch: “Curepipe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوريبيب”
- Esperanto: “Curepipe”
- Finnish: “Curepipe”
- French: “Curepipe”
- German: “Curepipe”
- Hungarian: “Curepipe”
- Indonesian: “Curepipe”
- Irish: “Curepipe”
- Italian: “Curepipe”
- Japanese: “キュールピップ”
- Korean: “쿠레피페”
- Lithuanian: “Kiurpaipas”
- Lithuanian: “Kiurpipas”
- Persian: “کورپیپ”
- Polish: “Curepipe”
- Portuguese: “Curepipe”
- Russian: “Курепипе”
- Russian: “Кьюрпайп”
- Russian: “Кюрпип”
- Serbian: “Kjurpajp”
- Serbian: “Кјурпајп”
- Silesian: “Curepipe”
- Spanish: “Curepipe”
- Swahili: “Curepipe”
- Swedish: “Curepipe”
- Tatar: “Курепипе”
- Thai: “กูร์ปิป”
- Thai: “กูร์ปีป”
- Ukrainian: “Кьюрпайп”
- Urdu: “کیورپیپہ”
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Places to explore: Floreal and La Vigie.
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Worth a closer look: Port Louis and Rodrigues.
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