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La Foa is a commune in the South Province of
Commune de La Foa - Official site
La Foa is a commune in the South Province of New Caledonia
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, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean.
Although the provincial seat of the South Province is in Nouméa, La Foa was made the chief town of the administrative subdivision of the South in order to counterbalance the overwhelming weight of Nouméa in New Caledonia. Both entities share an almost identical territory, but their status and role is quite different: the South Province, with its provincial assembly in Nouméa, is a full political division, whereas the administrative subdivision of the South is only an administrative division of the French central state, akin to an '' arrondissement'' of Metropolitan France, with a Deputy Commissioner of the Republic (''commissaire délégué de la République''), akin to a subprefect
A subprefect is a high government official in several countries, such as Brazil and France.
In Brazil, a subprefect (''subprefeito'') is the highest official of a subprefecture, which is a subdivision of certain large municipalities (São Paulo, ...
of metropolitan France, in residence in La Foa.
Geography
Climate
La Foa has a tropical monsoon climate ( Köppen climate classification ''Am''). The average annual temperature in La Foa is . The average annual rainfall is with February as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around , and lowest in July, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in La Foa was on 12 December 1952; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 29 July 1968.References
External links
Commune de La Foa - Official site
Foa
Foa may refer to:
People
* Arnoldo Foà (1916–2014), Italian film actor
* Barrett Foa (born 1977), American actor
* Edna B. Foa (born 1937), Israeli psychologist
* Emanuele Foà (1892–1949), Italian engineer
* Eugénie Foa (1796–1852), ...
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