Elevation of Plaines des Papayes, Pamplemousses, Mauritius

Plaines des Papayes, Pamplemousses, Mauritius is 74 m (243 ft) above sea level.

Plaines des Papayes's height from sea level is 74 metres, or 243 feet. GeoNames reads 68 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Plaine des Papayes.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 157 m

Mean 60 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 157 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

9th of 17

among the towns of Pamplemousses, and 81st of 143 in Mauritius.

Nearest town

Belle Vue Maurel

0.7 km to the SW, at 72 m, 2 m lower.

Cross-section through Plaines des Papayes

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 27.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Plaines des Papayes; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 0 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 468 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 59 km around Plaines des Papayes, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 59 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.

Towns near Plaines des Papayes

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Belle Vue Maurel (Riviere du Rempart)	0.7 km	SW	72 m (236 ft)	−2 m
Fond du Sac	1.7 km	N	46 m (151 ft)	−28 m
Morcellement Saint André	1.9 km	SW	64 m (210 ft)	−10 m
Mapou (Riviere du Rempart)	2.7 km	SE	96 m (315 ft)	+22 m
Triolet	4 km	NW	28 m (92 ft)	−46 m

Peaks and passes near Plaines des Papayes

Mont Calebasses, peak at 632 m (2,073 ft), 12.6 km to the S — 558 m above the town.
Pieter Both, peak at 600 m (1,969 ft), 14.4 km to the S — 526 m above the town.
Verdun Hill, peak at 537 m (1,762 ft), 23.6 km to the S — 463 m above the town.

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Plaines des Papayes is

Latitude -20.0653259, longitude 57.584421. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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About this reading

The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Plaines des Papayes's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 68 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.