Punaauia
Sign in to savePunaauia is a commune in the suburbs of Papeete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Punaauia is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands. In the late 1890s, the French painter Paul Gauguin lived in Punaauia. Here he painted his masterpiece Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?. The commune borders Faʻaʻā on the north and Pāea on the south.
Key facts
- French commune.name
- Punaauia
- French commune.commune status
- Commune
- French commune.image
- Papeete - Marina Taina.JPG
- French commune.caption
- Punaauia, in the southern suburbs of Papeete
- French commune.map size
- 270
- French commune.adjustable map
- Punaauia.png
- French commune.map caption
- Location of the commune (in red) within the Windward Islands
- French commune.administrative subdivision
- Windward Islands
- French commune.utc offset
- −10:00
- French commune.INSEE
- 98738
- French commune.postal code
- 98718
- French commune.mayor
- Simplicio Lissant
- French commune.term
- 2020–2026
- French commune.elevation min m
- 0
- French commune.elevation max m
- 2241
- French commune.area km2
- 75.9
- French commune.population
- 28781
- French commune.population date
- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Windward Islands
- Population
- 28781
- Area
- 76
- Elevation
- 24
- Shares border with
- Paea
- Official website
- www.punaauia.pf
- Image
- Papeete - Marina Taina.JPG
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- P8168
- The Last Kind Words
- Commons category
- Punaauia
- twinned administrative body
- Dumbéa
- postal code
- 98703
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Geography
- Climate
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- Twin towns – sister cities
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Punaauia is a commune in the suburbs of Papeete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Punaauia is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands. In the late 1890s, the French painter Paul Gauguin lived in Punaauia. Here he painted his masterpiece Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?. The commune borders Faʻaʻā on the north and Pāea on the south.
==History== Like many of the other communes and islands of French Polynesia, the area was first settled by early Polynesians from Asia around 1,000 years ago. These people have already settled on the Marquesas Islands and then they traveled on their sea canoes to the Society Islands. They had lived off of the fish and fruits of Tahiti. Most of the early Polynesians had built houses on the beach. Later on, they had built houses further inland because of high tide.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Punaauia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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