Elevation of Gros Cailloux, Black River, Mauritius

Gros Cailloux, Black River, Mauritius is 82 m (269 ft) above sea level.

Gros Cailloux's height from sea level is 82 metres, or 269 feet. GeoNames reads 71 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 71 m.

Also written: Gros Caillou.

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 296 m

Mean 89 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 296 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

6th of 13

among the towns of Black River, and 78th of 143 in Mauritius.

Nearest town

Petite Rivière

1.8 km to the NE, at 84 m, 2 m higher.

Cross-section through Gros Cailloux

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 Gros Cailloux; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 426 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 108 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Gros Cailloux, 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 Gros Cailloux

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Petite Rivière	1.8 km	NE	84 m (276 ft)	+2 m
Albion	3.1 km	W	24 m (79 ft)	−58 m
Richelieu	3.4 km	NE	88 m (289 ft)	+6 m
Pailles (Moka)	5.4 km	NE	44 m (144 ft)	−38 m
Bambous	6.3 km	SW	148 m (486 ft)	+66 m

Peaks and passes near Gros Cailloux

Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire, peak at 827 m (2,713 ft), 22.1 km to the S — 745 m above the town.
Montagne du Rempart, peak at 777 m (2,549 ft), 10.7 km to the S — 695 m above the town.
Corps de Garde, peak at 720 m (2,362 ft), 5.9 km to the S — 638 m above the town.

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

Where Gros Cailloux is

Latitude -20.207678, longitude 57.4386867. 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 Gros Cailloux'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 71 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.