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Cirque de Cilaos |
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View across Cirque de Cilaos with the town of Cilaos in SE direction. Piton de la Fournaise (2632 m) appears in the background near the left edge of the image. The clouds moving in from the left side reflect the uplift of air driven against the E slopes of the island by the tradewinds.
- Location
- View on OpenStreetMap
- Created
- on Monday 5 September 2016 by Martin Mergili
- Region
- Keywords
- aerial view, cloudscape, crater|caldera, cultural landscape, fluvial erosion, fluvial processes, mountainscape, shield volcano, townscape, tropical montane forest, volcanism, Zonobiome II
- Visits and license
- 13016 visits, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 DEED license