Pāʻea
Tahiti's west coast freeway runs through Pāʻea and ends in Teahupoʻo down south. Going northbound would take drivers toward Papeʻete.
The area of Pāʻea was first settled by Polynesian explorers. Captain James Cook had arrived in 1769. Pāʻea was part of the Kingdom of Tahiti until France claimed the islands of French Polynesia. The Faaa International Airport was built in 1962 and opened later on. The now defunct Air Moorea's flight 1121 crashed while it was flying to Moʻorea. Close to where the crash site is located lies a rock with the names of those people killed in the accident.
Moʻorea is north of Pāʻea and is seen as a gray mound sticking out of the Pacific Ocean. Mount Orohena is a major mountain nearby measuring 7,330 feet tall.
Geography
Climate
Pāʻea has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The average annual temperature in Pāʻea is 25.9 °C (78.6 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,221.3 mm (87.45 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in March, at around 27.3 °C (81.1 °F), and lowest in July, at around 24.3 °C (75.7 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Paea was 35.1 °C (95.2 °F) on 19 March 1998; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 15.9 °C (60.6 °F) on 30 August 1976.
| Climate data for Paea (1981–2010 averages, extremes 1971−2010) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 34.9 (94.8) |
34.5 (94.1) |
35.1 (95.2) |
34.5 (94.1) |
33.4 (92.1) |
32.6 (90.7) |
32.8 (91.0) |
32.1 (89.8) |
32.5 (90.5) |
33.2 (91.8) |
34.1 (93.4) |
34.3 (93.7) |
35.1 (95.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 31.4 (88.5) |
31.4 (88.5) |
31.7 (89.1) |
31.0 (87.8) |
29.8 (85.6) |
28.8 (83.8) |
28.5 (83.3) |
28.7 (83.7) |
29.1 (84.4) |
29.8 (85.6) |
30.2 (86.4) |
30.5 (86.9) |
30.1 (86.2) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 27.1 (80.8) |
27.0 (80.6) |
27.3 (81.1) |
26.8 (80.2) |
25.8 (78.4) |
24.8 (76.6) |
24.3 (75.7) |
24.4 (75.9) |
24.8 (76.6) |
25.5 (77.9) |
26.0 (78.8) |
26.5 (79.7) |
25.9 (78.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.7 (72.9) |
22.6 (72.7) |
22.9 (73.2) |
22.6 (72.7) |
21.9 (71.4) |
20.9 (69.6) |
20.2 (68.4) |
20.1 (68.2) |
20.6 (69.1) |
21.2 (70.2) |
21.9 (71.4) |
22.5 (72.5) |
21.7 (71.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 19.2 (66.6) |
20.0 (68.0) |
20.1 (68.2) |
19.0 (66.2) |
18.3 (64.9) |
16.2 (61.2) |
16.3 (61.3) |
15.9 (60.6) |
17.0 (62.6) |
17.5 (63.5) |
18.0 (64.4) |
19.0 (66.2) |
15.9 (60.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 208.5 (8.21) |
185.9 (7.32) |
198.8 (7.83) |
142.9 (5.63) |
171.0 (6.73) |
169.6 (6.68) |
128.2 (5.05) |
147.9 (5.82) |
166.6 (6.56) |
170.2 (6.70) |
208.8 (8.22) |
322.9 (12.71) |
2,221.3 (87.45) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 15.2 | 13.0 | 12.8 | 10.4 | 10.0 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 7.4 | 9.4 | 10.7 | 13.3 | 16.7 | 136.0 |
| Source: Meteociel | |||||||||||||
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 12,052 | — |
| 2007 | 12,084 | +0.3% |
| 2012 | 12,541 | +3.8% |
| 2017 | 13,021 | +3.8% |
| 2022 | 12,756 | −2.0% |
See also
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
- ^ "Les résultats du recensement de la population 2022 de Polynésie française" [Results of the 2022 population census of French Polynesia] (PDF) (in French). Institut de la statistique de la Polynésie française. January 2023.
- ^ Décret n° 2005-1611 du 20 décembre 2005 pris pour l'application du statut d'autonomie de la Polynésie française, Légifrance
- ^ "Normales et records pour Paea 2 (987)". Meteociel. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
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