Les Trois Roches, Mountain waterfall in La Possession, Réunion Island, France

Les Trois Roches is a natural site in the heart of the Mafate cirque, halfway between Roche Plate and Marla on the GR R2 trail. It is an almost flat rocky slab that suddenly drops into a gorge where the Rivière des Galets falls in cascade. The water pours over a rounded dark grey rock face in several streams and sheets, gathering among large boulders at the base.

The site lies on the GR R2 long-distance trail between Roche Plate and Marla, in the heart of the Mafate cirque. The Rivière des Galets, which plunges into the gorge here, forms the municipal boundary between La Possession and Saint-Paul. The hamlet at Les Trois Roches is home to a single family and straddles both communes, within Réunion National Park.

The site is a lieu-dit inhabited by a single family, straddling the boundary between La Possession and Saint-Paul. The Rivière des Galets, which plunges into the gorge here, forms that communal border in the Hauts. The spot lies within the perimeter of Réunion National Park, halfway between Roche Plate and Marla on the GR R2 long-distance trail.

Les Trois Roches lies on the GR R2 long-distance trail, halfway between the islet of Roche Plate and that of Marla in the Mafate cirque. Hikers reach it on foot only, along a route that crosses the communal boundary between La Possession and Saint-Paul. The site sits within Réunion National Park, and the rocky slab ends abruptly at the gorge where the Rivière des Galets falls.

The site is a single inhabited islet: only one family lives at Les Trois Roches, on a spot straddling the boundary between La Possession and Saint-Paul. The Rivière des Galets, which plunges into the gorge here, forms that communal border in the Hauts, within the Réunion National Park.