Nouméa

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Nouméa
Nouméa coat of arms Location of the municipality of Nouméa in the {{{département}}}
province Southern province
Aire coutumière Djubéa caponé
Coordinates 22 ° 17 ′  S , 166 ° 27 ′  E Coordinates: 22 ° 17 ′  S , 166 ° 27 ′  E
height 0-167 m
surface 45.70 km 2
Residents 99,926 (August 26, 2014)
Population density 2,187 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 98800
INSEE code 98818
Website www.ville-noumea.nc

Nouméa

Nouméa (also Numea ) is the capital of the French overseas territory New Caledonia . Nouméa was founded in 1854 under the name Port-de-France on a strongly indented peninsula around 10 kilometers long at the southwest end of the main New Caledonian island of Grande Terre . The community has 97,579 inhabitants; with suburbs, Greater Nouméa ( French agglomération du Grand Nouméa ) has 163,732 inhabitants (both as of 2009).

The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nouméa . The University of New Caledonia is also located here .

In a ranking of cities according to their quality of life, Nouméa was ranked 109th out of 231 cities worldwide in 2018.

Population development

Population development in Nouméa
1956 1963 1969 1976 1983 1989 1996 2009
City of Nouméa 22,235 34,990 41,853 56,078 60.112 65.110 76.293 97,579
Agglomeration 25.204 39,996 50,488 74,335 85,098 97,581 118,823 163,723

Economy and Infrastructure

In addition to tourism , the city's main source of income is nickel processing . The ore is smelted in an extensive factory in a relatively central location in the city and shipped there.

In the port of Nouméa, by far the most important in New Caledonia, 5,193,000 tons were handled (2011). Of this, 3,217,588 tonnes were nickel ore.

The main airport of New Caledonia - La Tontouta International Airport - is located about 50 km from the city in Païta . The regional airport Magenta Airport is only 3 km northeast of the center of Noumea.

Nouméa has two bus stations: the intercity buses to northern New Caledonia and the east coast depart from the bus station, the Gare Routière Moselle , which is located opposite the market hall in the south of the city center. The Desmazures bus station in the northern part of the city center, not far from the hospital, serves traffic to the neighboring cities in the north and to La Tontouta Airport .

The boats to the islands of Lifou , Maré and Ile des Pins create the des Îles Gare Maritime from. This ferry pier is located on the northwestern edge of the city center at the Desmazures bus station .

The city of Nouméa is served by a network of city buses, currently 16 lines operate. Most lines start at Place des Cocotiers , the central square, or at Gare Routière Moselle . Timetables that are adhered to on time are posted at almost all stops.

Attractions

  • A steel lighthouse , which was actually intended for Fort-de-France in Martinique , was accidentally delivered to Nouméa because of the similarity of the name at the time. This lighthouse is still in operation today on the small island of Amédée, barely 20 km off the coast of Nouméa. The Phare Amédée is a popular destination for tourists.
  • In the Tjibaou cultural center ( Center culturel Tjibaou ), which opened in 1998 and covers an area of ​​6970 m², cultural events of Kanak and other origins are offered. The center was built in the Melanesian style, it consists of ten buildings made of wood and metal in the traditional style and lined up along an avenue made of the pine trees typical of New Caledonia. Numerous important Melanesian crops have been planted in front of him, they form an educational trail and are explained on boards. Wooden sculptures were set up on the grounds of the cultural center, which are also explained on boards.
  • The Aquarium des Lagons is located on the popular Baie des Citrons . It was founded in 1956 by marine biologist Catala and expanded to its current size in 2007, with 50% of the cost being borne by the European Development Fund. The marine fauna of the lagoons and coral reefs of New Caledonia as well as the open sea is presented on an area of ​​3000 m² in 33 basins with a total capacity of 600 m³ and explained, among other things, nautilids of the species Nautilus macromphalus can be seen. The largest pool is 12 m long and has a capacity of 400 m³.
  • The Musée de Nouvelle-Calédonie in the city center opposite the main post office was founded in 1863 by Governor Guillain; the current building was built in 1971. The museum is dedicated to the ethnology and archeology of New Caledonia, but there are also exhibits from Micronesia , Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, as well as from the Solomon Islands . In addition to a replica of a pirogue made in 1977, the Lapita culture ceramics found on the neighboring Île des Pins are particularly impressive . A nautical chart of the Marshall Islands made of rods and shells can also be seen, although it cannot be ruled out that similar nautical charts were also used in Melanesia in the past. In the inner courtyard of the museum, a hut was built in the traditional Melanesian style, behind which important crops of New Caledonia - such as B. a calabash (Crescentia microcarpa) - can be seen.
  • At the eastern end of the broad, tree-lined avenue de la Victoire rises the representative building of the barracks Caserne Gally-Passebosc , which was built in 1863–68 and enlarged in 1874–78. The barracks is named after a French officer who was killed in a Kanak revolt in 1878. In front of her, on the vast square, Place Bir Hakeim , a memorial was erected for those who died in both world wars.
  • The undisputed center of the city is the representative and tree-lined square, the Place des Cocotiers , which consists of four squares and is 400 × 100 m in size. On the easternmost of the four squares, Place Feillet , there is a bandstand built by convicts in 1879. In the middle of the square is the eight-meter-high Fontaine Céleste fountain , which forms the zero point of the New Caledonia road system: From here, the distances from Nouméa are calculated. The fountain was built in 1893 and restored in 1995. It is named after a former resident of Noumea.
  • The city history museum Musée de la Ville de Nouméa is located on Place des Cocotiers in a colonial-style building with a veranda, which was built in 1875 and originally served as a bank - the first in New Caledonia - and then from 1880 to 1975 as the town hall. The city history museum has been housed here since 1996, and is also popular because of its well-tended garden.
  • The town hall, completed in 1975, forms the western end of the Place des Cocotiers . In front of him there is a monument to Vice Admiral Olry, a former governor (1878), in the square of the same name, Square Olry . On the first floor of the town hall, there is a painting by Gaston Roullet, which depicts a view of the city of Noumea in 1889.
  • The Catholic St. Joseph's Cathedral is the largest church in New Caledonia with a length of 56 m and a width of 12 m. Construction began in 1899 and the inauguration took place in 1894. The two 25 m high towers with tower clocks from 1912 were not completed until 1909, and the organ built in Sydney also dates from this year.
  • Another church worth seeing rises on a hill in the south of the city, in the district of Receiving . The local Eglise du Cœur Immaculé de Marie is better known under the name Eglise du Vœu ( Votive Church). On January 25, 1942, Monsignor Paul Bresson, one of New Caledonia's leading theologians, took an oath that a church would be built in honor of Mary if New Caledonia was spared the devastation of World War II. After this was the case, construction began on August 15, the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, in 1949, and the building was inaugurated on May 14, 1953. The exterior of the church, which is kept white, differs significantly from the other churches in the city with its buttresses and tiled roof. Her tower is in the south of the nave, on it is a larger than life relief of Mary. In front of the church there is a large green area on which an offshoot of the banyan tree was planted, under which the first Catholic service in New Caledonia was celebrated on December 25, 1843.
  • The city's most important Protestant church is located on Boulevard Vauban in the east of the city center. It was built in 1884–93 and its organ was built in Sydney in 1872. A few buildings from the 19th century have been preserved in the vicinity of the church. Not far from her is the Haut-Commissariat building (representation of France in New Caledonia) in a park .

  • The central "Place des Cocotiers"

  • St. Joseph's Cathedral

  • City history museum

  • Musée de Nouvelle Calédonie museum

  • The Phare Amédée lighthouse

  • Spiral staircase in the lighthouse

  • Kanakenhaus in the
    Center culturel Tjibaou

  • Votive Church

  • Banyan tree in front of the Votive Church

  • Gally Passebosc Barracks

  • Protestant church

Nouméa satellite image

Sports

In 2011, in Noumea with the slogan Pacific Attitude (Pacific setting), the Pacific Games in 2011 held.

The city has two football clubs: US Calédonienne and AS Magenta .

Town twinning

Nouméa has twinned with

sons and daughters of the town

Climate table

Nouméa
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: wetterkontor.de
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Nouméa
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 28.9 29.0 28.5 26.9 25.2 23.7 22.6 22.8 23.8 25.5 27.0 28.2 O 26th
Min. Temperature (° C) 23.0 23.2 22.8 21.4 19.8 18.5 17.2 17.2 17.7 19.2 20.7 21.9 O 20.2
Precipitation ( mm ) 113 123 135 111 91 129 73 70 39 53 63 73 Σ 1,073
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 7.5 7.3 6.5 6.6 5.7 5.2 5.9 6.5 7.4 8.1 8.3 8.4 O 6.9
Rainy days ( d ) 9 10 12 10 10 11 10 8th 5 6th 6th 6th Σ 103
Water temperature (° C) 27 26th 26th 26th 24 23 23 23 22nd 23 24 25th O 24.3
Humidity ( % ) 78 79 79 78 77 78 75 74 72 72 74 75 O 75.9
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Web links

Commons : Nouméa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mercer's 2018 Quality of Living Rankings. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Le SPLAF: Agglomérations et Villes de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. Retrieved November 29, 2012 (French).
  3. ↑ ISEE: Population de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et ses provinces en 2009. ( Excel , 79.4kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 30, 2012 ; Retrieved November 29, 2012 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.isee.nc
  4. ↑ Port Autonome de Nouvelle-Calédonie: TRAFIC MARITIME 2011 - Secteur portuaire de Nouméa. Retrieved November 29, 2012 (French).
  5. ↑ Interactive map of Nouméa
  6. ^ Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 84.
  7. ^ Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 81.
  8. ^ Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 82.
  9. ^ Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 76.
  10. ^ Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 75.
  11. ^ Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 71.
  12. ^ Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 72.
  13. ↑ a b Pierre Grundmann: Nouvelle Calédonie. Paris 2012, p. 74.
  14. ↑ The NC2011 Games slogan is 'Pacific Attitude', preps well ahead of schedule. Samoanews.com, archived from the original on August 9, 2010 ; Retrieved September 30, 2012 .