Papeari

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Pape'ari
Associated commune of Teva I Uta
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Location of Pape'ari
Papeari
Coordinates: 17°45′S149°21′W / 17.750°S 149.350°W / -17.750; -149.350
Country France
Overseas collectivity French Polynesia
Commune Teva I Uta
Population
 (2022) [1]
5,446
Time zone UTC−10:00

Pape'ari is a village on the south coast of Tahiti. It is located in Tahiti-nui district, [2] around 32 miles from Papeete. [3]

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History

Papeari is attested in some accounts as Tahiti's oldest village. [4]

Some 19th-century sources attest that Papeari was formerly known as Vaiari (or Wyere), a name attributed to an indigenous group. [5] It houses a harbor with anchorage. [6]

Tourist sites in and near modern Papeari include the former home of the British novelist Robert Keable, who lived there from 1922 until his death in 1927, and a museum dedicated to the French painter Paul Gauguin, also a former resident of the area (from 1891-3). [4]

Notable people

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ Crocombe, R.G. (1988). French Polynesia: a book of selected readings. p. 184. ISBN   982-02-0032-6.
  3. ↑ Young, Melanie (22 February 2004). "Pacific perals: Gauguin exhibit further polishes Tahitian islands' allure". Boston Herald. Archived from the original on July 12, 2012.
  4. 1 2 Goodwin, Bill (2010). Frommer's Tahiti and French Polynesia. Frommer's. pp. 104–105. ISBN   0-470-61828-0.
  5. ↑ Williamson, R W (1926). The social and political systems of central Polynesia. Cambridge University Press. p. 174.
  6. ↑ United States Hydrographic Office (1906). Pacific Islands pilot. US Government Print Office. p. 100.
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