Vacoas-Phoenix
Vacoas-Phoenix also known as French: Villes Jumelles, is a town in Mauritius, located in the Plaines Wilhems District, the eastern part also lies in the Moka District.Places of Interest
Highlights include Trou aux Cerfs and Curepipe Botanic Gardens.
Trou aux Cerfs
Volcano
Trou aux Cerfs is a dormant, crater lake, cinder cone volcano with a well-defined cone and crater. It is 605 m high and located in Curepipe, Mauritius.
Curepipe Botanic Gardens
Park
Curepipe Botanic Gardens in Route des Jardins, Curepipe, is the second largest botanical garden in Mauritius. It has a relatively informal layout, and contains a river, lake and the world's rarest palm tree among other attractions.
Royal College Curepipe
College
The Royal College Curepipe is a secondary school in Mauritius. Founded in 1791, it began producing laureates in the 19th century and has continued to do so over the years.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Curepipe and Quatre Bornes.
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.Quatre Bornes
Quatre Bornes, also known as La Ville des Fleurs, is a town in Mauritius, located mainly in the Plaines Wilhems District. Its western part lies in the Rivière Noire District.Ebene CyberCity
Suburb
Ébène is a suburb of Quatre Bornes, Mauritius, 15 kilometres south of the capital, Port Louis. Construction began in November 2001, with the suburb being promoted as a new information technology hub for Mauritius and as a link between African and Asian markets.
Vacoas-Phoenix
- Type: City with 108,000 residents
- Description: administrative territorial entity of Mauritius
- Categories: administrative territorial entity of Mauritius, first-level administrative division, and locality
- Location: Mauritius, East African Islands, Africa
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Vacoas-Phoenix” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاكوس-فينيكس”
- Basque: “Vacoas-Phoenix”
- 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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