Huahine
Huahine is a island belonging to the Leeward Islands in the archipelago of the Company in French Polynésie. This one is the chief town of the common of Huahine. It is located at 175 kilometers of Tahiti by 151° of Western longitude and 16°30 of Southern latitude.
The island of a surface of 74 km ² and made up of 2 mountainous solid masses, Harmed Huahine (“large Huahine”) and Huahine Iti (“small Huahine”), separated by bays from Maroe and Bourayne. There are approximately 5.400 inhabitants. One cultivates the Vanille there, as well as melons and water melons on the motu . Copra there is also exploited, and fishing there is practiced. It is also called “the island of the woman”, because it was always controlled by queens.
It is on Huahine Nui that Fare is, the capital of this island. Huahine Iti has only one volcano, of which the top, Pohue Rahi, reached 460 Mr. More raised, Huahine Harmed, culminates to 669 m with the Turi mount.
It is in Huahine that one finds one of the greatest concentrations of vestiges maohi with marae, of which most are at the edge of the harmed Fauna Lake. Just as the old fish traps in the middle of the master keys.
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