Does Mauritius has 20 volcanoes?

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1. Mt Virer 5. Mont Piton 9. Alma Hill 13. Trou Aux Cerfs 17. Mt Peruche
2. Butte Aux Papayes 6. Mount William 10. Mt La Terre 14. La Brasserie 18. Kanaka Crater
3. Forbach Hill 7. Nouvelle Decouverte 11. Butte Chaumon 15. Curepipe Point 19. Grand Bassin
4. The Mount 8. Mt Bar le Duc 12. Malherbes 16. Trou De Mme. Bouchet 20. Baie Du Cap Cham

This is the list of the craters. Are they volcanoes? Because definition of crater here seems to be of volcanic origin.

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gices
gices Level 6
They could very well have been volcanoes before but not all of them are still considered to be volcanoes now. They might be dead volcanoes as opposed to dormant ones. As you probably know, the distinction here is that dormant or active volcanoes have green vegetation around them.
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moricien
moricien Level 2
Well as to what I learnt in Eves, in primary school, there is only one volcano in Mauritius which is found at Trou aux Cerf..
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