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Vacoas-Phoenix

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

Park
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in Route des Jardins, , 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 Curepipe and Quatre Bornes.

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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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, also known as La Ville des Fleurs, is a town in , located mainly in the . Its western part lies in the .

Suburb
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Ébène is a suburb of , , 15 kilometres south of the capital, . Construction began in November 2001, with the suburb being promoted as a new information technology hub for Mauritius and as a link between and markets.

Vacoas-Phoenix

Latitude
-20.2934° or 20° 17′ 36″ south
Longitude
57.4978° or 57° 29′ 52″ east
Population
108,000
Open location code
5HFVPF4X+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 365764030
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Wiki­data ID
Q676724
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Vacoas-Phoenix” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “فاكوس-فينيكس”
  • Belarusian: “Вакоа-Фенікс”
  • Bengali: “ভাকোয়াস-ফিনিক্স”
  • Chinese: “瓦科阿-菲尼克斯”
  • Danish: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Dutch: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Esperanto: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Finnish: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • French: “Vacoas-Phœnix”
  • French: “Vacoas”
  • German: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Greek: “Βακόας-Φοίνιξ”
  • Gujarati: “વેકોસ-ફિનિક્સ”
  • Hindi: “वकाऊ फीनिक्स”
  • Hungarian: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Hungarian: “VacoasPhoenix”
  • Ido: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Indonesian: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Italian: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Japanese: “ヴァコア・フェニックス”
  • Kannada: “ವ್ಯಾಕೋವಾಸ್ ಫೀನಿಕ್ಸ್”
  • Korean: “바코아스피닉스”
  • Latvian: “Vakoasa-Fīniksa”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakoasas-Finiksas”
  • Lithuanian: “Vakoasas”
  • Malay: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Marathi: “व्होकस-फिनिक्स”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Norwegian: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Polish: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Portuguese: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Russian: “Вакоа-Феникс”
  • Serbian: “Вакоа-Феникс”
  • Silesian: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Sinhala: “වාකොස් ෆීනික්ස්”
  • Spanish: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Swahili: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Swedish: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
  • Tamil: “வாகோஸ் - போயெனிக்ஸ்”
  • Telugu: “వాకోవస్-ఫీనిక్స్”
  • Thai: “วาโคอ์-โฟนิกส์”
  • Turkish: “Vacaos-Phoneix”
  • Ukrainian: “Вакоа-Фенікс”
  • Ukrainian: “Вакоас-Фенікс”
  • Urdu: “واکواس فینکس”
  • Vietnamese: “Vacoas-Phoenix”

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