Mauritius summit
Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire
You can see 225 km from here, looking west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 225 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 225 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 70%Seaof the circle where the horizon is the sea
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 785 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in May and from October to December.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Febwestsets on an open horizon42%
- Marwestsets on an open horizon43%
- Aprwestsets on an open horizon48%
- Maywestsets on an open horizon50%
- Junnorth-westsets on an open horizon46%
- Julnorth-westsets on an open horizon43%
- Augwestsets on an open horizon44%
- Sepwestsets on an open horizon49%
- Octwestsets on an open horizon51%
- Novwest2 min before the sea-level sunset52%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset50%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire.
Mountain in Mauritius
Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire is a summit in Mauritius, 785 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 225 km away, looking west.
The sea fills 70% of the horizon.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Montagne Cocotte (771 m), 7 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in May and from October to December.
Get there and stay
- Lakaz Chamarelplace to stay · 3.0 km · 119 within 10 km
- Petite Case Noyalenearest town · 3.9 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Petite Case NoyaleBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport (MRU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 29 km in a straight lineCar hire at MRU airport (Plaine Magnien)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmViewpoint Chamarel, Case Noyale Viewpoint, Gorges Viewpoint and 20 more
- 5named peaks within 5 kmPiton de la Petite Rivière Noire, Piton du Canot, Morne Sec and 2 more
- 8shelters and huts within 5 km
- 10car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmVisitor Centre Black River Gorge National Park
- 12restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 119places to stay within 10 kmLakaz Chamarel, La Vieille Cheminée, Reception, Marisa Residences and 116 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- marked trails within 3 km
- campsites within 10 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas45 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Cascadyas4 waterfalls within 15 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Piton de la Petite Rivière Noire
Mauritius
- 80Viewyas Score
- 225 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 785 mAltitude
Le Morne Brabant
Mauritius · 11 km
- 88Viewyas Score
- 215 kmFarthest ridge
- 10Peaks in view
- 513 mAltitude
Maconde Viewpoint
Mauritius · 10 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 209 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 8 mAltitude
Rempart de Bellecombe
France · 201 km
- 90Viewyas Score
- 229 kmFarthest ridge
- 19Peaks in view
- 2,386 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1760978) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Lakeyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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