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Punaauia, Polinesia Francesa
🇵🇫 Polinesia Francesa

Punaauia

Punaʻauiʻa is a commune in the suburbs of Papeʻete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Punaʻauiʻa 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 Punaʻauiʻa. 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 Pāʻea on the south.

Country
🇵🇫 Polinesia Francesa
Elevation
0 m
Population
25,750
Time zone
Pacific/Tahiti
Coordinates
-17.63, -149.60

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