Reunion Island is an outermost region of the European Union and is part of the eurozone.
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29 Facts About Reunion Island
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Reunion Island changed its name again in the 19th century: in 1806, under the First Empire, General Decaen named it Ile Bonaparte, and in 1810 it became Ile Bourbon again.
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Reunion Island has been inhabited since the 17th century, when people from France and Madagascar settled there.
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Reunion Island became a departement d'outre-mer of France on 19 March 1946.
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In 2005 and 2006, Reunion Island was hit by a crippling epidemic of chikungunya, a disease spread by mosquitoes.
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Reunion Island sends seven deputies to the French National Assembly and three senators to the Senate.
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Already at the time of the India Route or Route des Indes, Reunion Island was a French possession located between Cape Town and the Indian trading posts, although far from the Mozambique Channel.
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Reunion Island intended Ile de Bourbon to be a depot or an emergency base for Ile de France.
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Reunion Island is a base for the so-called Frenchelon signal intelligence system, whose infrastructure includes a mobile listening and automatic search unit.
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Every commune in Reunion Island is a member of such an intercommunality, with its own taxation, to which member communes have delegated their authority in various areas.
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Reunion Island has three calderas: the Cirque de Salazie, the Cirque de Cilaos and the Cirque de Mafate.
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Island of Reunion is characterized by a humid tropical climate, tempered by the oceanic influence of the trade winds blowing from east to west.
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The climate of Reunion is characterized by its great variability, mainly due to the imposing relief of the island, which is at the origin of numerous microclimates.
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In Reunion Island there are two distinct seasons, defined by the rainfall regime:.
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Temperatures in Reunion Island are characterized by their great mildness throughout the year.
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Tropical and insular flora of Reunion Island is characterized by its diversity, a very high rate of endemism and a very specific structure.
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Finally, the flora of Reunion Island is distinguished from that of equatorial tropical forests by the low height and density of the canopy, probably due to adaptation to cyclones, and by a very specific vegetation, in particular a strong presence of epiphytic plants, such as orchids, bromeliads and cacti, but ferns, lichens and mosses.
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Reunion Island is relatively young, the coral formations are not well developed and occupy a small area compared to older islands, mostly in the form of fringing reefs.
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Reunion Island has experienced extremely little immigration of foreigners since World War Two, and by the 2018 census only 2.
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Reunion Island has a number of contributions to worldwide professional surfing.
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Since 1992, Reunion Island has hosted a number of ultramarathons under the umbrella name of the Grand Raid.
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In 2007, the city of Saint-Denis de La Reunion Island entrusted him with the artistic direction of its Saint-Denis Danses festival.
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Reunion Island has a local public television channel, Reunion Island 1ere, which now forms part of France Television, and receives France 2, France 3, France 4, France 5 and France 24 from metropolitan France, as well as France O, which shows programming from all of the overseas departments and territories.
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The Reunion Island region has deployed a regional fibre-optic network for operators.
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Reunion Island was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, leading to a massive recession of -4.
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Ninety-seven percent of the farms in Reunion Island are less than 20 hectares in size, compared to an average of 78 hectares in mainland France.
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Energy on Reunion depends on oil and is limited by the island's insularity, which forces it to produce electricity locally and import fossil fuels.
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