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Réunion. Réunion, [note 1] officially Department of Réunion, [note 2] is an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France. Part of the Mascarene Islands, it is located approximately 679 km (422 mi) east of the island of Madagascar and 175 km (109 mi) southwest of the island of Mauritius.
Population. As of 2021, estimates put the population of Réunion at 966,129, with a growth rate of 1.63%. The birth rate was estimated at 21.84 births per 1,000 population, and the death rate at 5.55 deaths per 1,000 population in the same year. The net migration rate was zero in 2000. The following table describes age structure and sex ratios ...
Volcano Piton de la Fournaise on the island of Réunion, drawn in 1802 by Bory de Saint-Vincent. In tribute to Bory's pioneering exploration of the volcano, one of the two summit craters of Piton de la Fournaise on the island of Réunion was named the Bory crater by his companion de Jouvancourt during their ascent of the volcano in 1801.
In 2001, 424,000 tourists visited Réunion, creating a revenue of € 271.5 million. [44] The number of tourists visiting Réunion decreased in 2004 because of the high cost of flights to the country and competition from the tourist attractions of Mauritius and Seychelles.
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Saint-Denis was founded in 1669 by Étienne Regnault, the first governor of Bourbon Island (as La Réunion was then called), on the northern side of the island, where a larger and more fertile plain was deemed more propitious for the development of settlements than the drier and more barren area of Saint-Paul on the western side of the island.
The average annual temperature in Saint-Louis is 22.2 °C (72.0 °F). The average annual rainfall is 1,161.6 mm (45.73 in) with January as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 25.2 °C (77.4 °F), and lowest in July, at around 19.0 °C (66.2 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Saint-Louis ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Le Port ( French pronunciation: [lə pɔʁ]) is a commune in the French overseas department of Réunion. It is located at the extreme northwest corner of the island of Réunion. It has a population of 34,218 (2017).