Elevation of Rivière du Poste, Grand Port, Mauritius

Rivière du Poste, Grand Port, Mauritius is 274 m (899 ft) above sea level.

Rivière du Poste's height from sea level is 274 metres, or 899 feet. GeoNames reads 320 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

89 m – 509 m

Mean 274 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 420 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 23

among the towns of Grand Port, and 33rd of 143 in Mauritius.

Nearest town

Mare Tabac

2.5 km to the SE, at 199 m, 75 m lower.

Cross-section through Rivière du Poste

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 Rivière du Poste; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 682 m at 14 km west to 25 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 434 m at 14 km north to 0 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Rivière du Poste, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 58 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 Rivière du Poste

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Mare Tabac	2.5 km	SE	199 m (653 ft)	−75 m
Britannia (Savanne)	2.8 km	SW	235 m (771 ft)	−39 m
Grand Bois (Savanne)	2.9 km	W	403 m (1,322 ft)	+129 m
Rose Belle	3.5 km	NE	286 m (938 ft)	+12 m
New Grove	3.9 km	E	217 m (712 ft)	−57 m

Peaks and passes near Rivière du Poste

Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire, peak at 827 m (2,713 ft), 17.5 km to the W — 553 m above the town.
Montagne du Rempart, peak at 777 m (2,549 ft), 20.5 km to the NW — 503 m above the town.
Mont Cocotte, peak at 771 m (2,530 ft), 11.9 km to the W — 497 m above the town.

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

Where Rivière du Poste is

Latitude -20.4288094, longitude 57.5752181. 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 Rivière du Poste'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 320 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.