Reunion

Reunion - vulcanic island in Indian ocean (in bunch of Mascarene Islands), possession France. The square - 2,5  thousand sq. km.

140  km of coast of island represent a heap of vulcanics, only 15  km it is possible to name is conditional beaches. The central part of Reunion - the vulcanic range abounding with circuses, which end plate it is occupied by fertile soils. Table plateaus border on to circuses, which in the western part covered with woods and plantations. In the southeast of plateau Kafrov and plateaus Palmist, brillianting naked basalts, abjoint the central part of island where vulcanic activity has already ceased, from region active volcanism. Over lavovymi fields the huge dome of active volcano Furnez (2631 hangs; with three craters from which the wall slipping from mounts and stiffening arabesque forms constantly outflows. On bolshej coast parts, away from lavovyh the pennyroyal, is spread the plain covered with savannah in a southwest part of island (where falls out nearby 1000  Mm of deposits a year), and on the northeast party, open to monsoons (bringing in a year to 4000  mm of deposits), - ever-green forests from a tamarind, an iron and olive arbour, tree ferns and palm trees.

Almost all population of island (nearby 631  thousand inhabitants) - Creoles, offsprings of the first migrants from France, slaves from Africa and with Madagascar and hired workers from India. The population is occupied on plantations of a sugarcane, vanilla, other crops. The main city of island - Saint-Denis - is had at bottom of a 800-metre basaltic rock. In a city there is a botanic garden, the arranged well hotels, a majestic palace of prefecture.