Elevation of Pailles, Moka, Mauritius

Pailles, Moka, Mauritius is 44 m (144 ft) above sea level.

Pailles's height from sea level is 44 metres, or 144 feet. GeoNames reads 73 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 5 km

0 m – 462 m

Mean 104 m across the 9.9 km square centred on the town, 462 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

15th of 15

among the towns of Moka, and 104th of 143 in Mauritius.

Nearest town

Richelieu

2.1 km to the SW, at 88 m, 44 m higher.

Cross-section through Pailles

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 Pailles; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 0 m at 14 km west to 441 m at 14 km east.

North to south: from 0 m at 14 km north to 413 m at 14 km south.

Shaded relief of the 58 km around Pailles, 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 Pailles

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Richelieu (Black River)	2.1 km	SW	88 m (289 ft)	+44 m
Port Louis	2.3 km	NE	8 m (26 ft)	−36 m
Beau Bassin-Rose Hill (Plaines Wilhelm)	3.1 km	NE	17 m (56 ft)	−27 m
Petite Rivière (Black River)	3.8 km	SW	84 m (276 ft)	+40 m
Moka	4.9 km	SE	455 m (1,493 ft)	+411 m

Peaks and passes near Pailles

Montagne du Rempart, peak at 777 m (2,549 ft), 14.8 km to the S — 733 m above the town.
Corps de Garde, peak at 720 m (2,362 ft), 9.5 km to the S — 676 m above the town.
Curepipe Point, peak at 686 m (2,251 ft), 20.3 km to the S — 642 m above the town.

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

Where Pailles is

Latitude -20.1777778, longitude 57.4788889. 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 Pailles'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 73 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.