Great coral gardens, wall of orange gorgonians... Mauritus is a good place for diving.

- Grand Baie (Northwest side): Whale Rock Wall, The Silver Star wreck, Turtle Point Reef...
- Flic en Flac (West side): The Cathedrale Arch, L’Eveillé,
- Belle Mare (East side): Drift dives, sharks & rays...

Ort: Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar
Geografische Koordinaten: 20° 17' S, 57° 33' E
Küste km: 177 km km
Klima: tropical, modified by southeast trade winds; warm, dry winter (May to November); hot, wet, humid summer (November to May)
Gelände: small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau
Höhe: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Mont Piton 828 m
Natürliche Gefahren: cyclones (November to April); almost completely surrounded by reefs that may pose maritime hazards
Währung: Mauritian rupee (MUR)
Bevölkerung: 1,240,827 (July 2006 est.)
Sprachen: Creole 80.5%, Bhojpuri 12.1%, French 3.4%, English (official; spoken by less than 1% of the population), other 3.7%, unspecified 0.3% (2000 census)
Hauptstadt: Port Louis
Bereiche: 9 districts and 3 dependencies*; Agalega Islands*, Black River, Cargados Carajos Shoals*, Flacq, Grand Port, Moka, Pamplemousses, Plaines Wilhems, Port Louis, Riviere du Rempart, Rodrigues*, Savanne

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