Curepipe Botanic Gardens, Botanical garden in Curepipe, Mauritius.

Curepipe Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden in the highland town of Curepipe, Mauritius, centered around a river, a lake, and a Victorian gazebo. The grounds sit at an elevation that gives the area a notably cooler feel than the coastal parts of the island.

The garden was founded in 1870, when colonial authorities were looking for a place to grow plants that could not survive the heat of the coastal lowlands. Curepipe's higher ground turned out to be the right answer.

In the mid-1980s the garden was named Sir Seewoosagar Botanical Garden after Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, Mauritius's first post-independence prime minister, the same statesman honoured by the Pamplemousses garden to the north. In the middle of the great lawn stands a Victorian-era bandstand, a raised wooden board floor built for acoustics so early concerts could be heard; community events are still sometimes held there.

The garden has two entrances, the main one on Botanical Garden Street at Les Casernes and a second one at Camp Caval. Comfortable walking shoes are a good idea since the paths cover a fair amount of ground.

The garden is home to the last known Hyophorbe amaricaulis palm in the world, a species that has disappeared everywhere else. Attempts to cross-fertilize it have not succeeded, so the tree now has its own security measures in place.