Badly burned person

the Badly burned person is the coastal part of the last Caldeira formed by the Piton of the Furnace, the active Volcan of the island of the Réunion. This area bordered by the Indian Ocean for this reason occupies the Eastern quarter of the Enclos Fouqué and thus the south-east of the commune of Holy-Rose as well as the North-East of Saint-Philippe. Located in Downstream of the Great Slopes, it is delimited by the Rempart of Whitewood in north and by that of the Tremblet in the south.

The forest which covers the zone is called National forest of the Badly burned person . Crossed by the Trunk road which makes the turn of the Overseas department, it accommodated formerly the Vierge with the Parasol which one observes from now on in the vicinity immediate of the church Our-Lady-of-Lava of Piton Holy-Rose since it was moved so that the eruption of April 2007 the saving. One also found a Sculpture there baptized Symbiose for birds and volcano until it is covered with Lave consequently volcanic eruption.

After each eruption, the area is colonized by a great number of plants, among which the Bois of rampart and the star of Bethlehem, but also Ardisia crenata , Benthamia spiralis , Blechnum tabulare , Clidemia hirta , Crotalaria berteroana , Dicranopteris linearis , Heterotis decumbens , Lantana trifolia , Machaerina iridifolia , Nephrolepis abrupta , Otacanthus caeruleus , Phyllanthus urinaria , Pityrogramma callomelanos , Psilotum nudum , Schinus therebenthifolius , Smilax anceps , Spathiglottis plicata , Sphaerostephanos unitus , Stereocaulon vulcani , Dieresis orientalis and Tristemma mauritianum .

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