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CORSICA |
Summary
presentation.
Corsica is an island.
In the heart of the bay of Genes, Corsica
is situated in latitudes between 41 °
and 43 ° of latitude the North appreciably
identical to those of Pyrenees and the Apennines
of Italy.
Lengthened(Stretched out) on a north-south
axis, the island extends over 183 km long
and 85 km wide and possesses 1000 km of coasts.
Provence is only in approximately 160 km.
Sardinia, it, is only 12 km in the direction
of the South.
She is in 170 km from Nice, 320 km from Marseille,
260 km from Toulon, 190 km of Genes, 115 km
of Livourne. The island is distant from 90
km of the Italian port of Piombino.
Corsica is a very mountainous island, of which
the highlight, goes up him Cinto, reaches
2710 m of height, it possesses 50 other summits
which exceed the 2000 m. The mountain is omnipresent
on the island with an average height of 568
m, these tops overhang more than 1 000 km
of banks. The west coast, exposed to the dominant
winds, is the most cut. She is dug by deep
bays.
The coast is characterized by steep and wild
banks. In the oriental part of Corsica the
relief is less fearless than towards the West
and mountains exceed hardly on 1500 m height.
The quotation the West possesses a hilly landscape
and contrasts with the oriental plain.
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TWO
DEPARTMENTS |
- La CORSE-DU-SUD (2A) 118
200 h
The Administrative centre of department is Ajaccio.
He is also the leader place of Region.
Chefs-lieu of districts is Ajaccio and Sartène.
He understands 2 districts, 22 cantons, 124
municipalities on a 4 014 km surface ².
- La HAUTE-CORSE (2B) 131 600 h
The Administrative centre of department is Bastia.
Chefs-lieu of districts is Calvi and Corte.
He understands 3 districts, 30 cantons, 236
municipalities on a 4 666 km surface ².
Ajaccio is the seat of Academy.
The Prefecture of region is in Ajaccio.
Bastia is the seat of a yard of call.
Corsica is connected with the military region
of Lyon.
The surface is 8 680 km ².
The population is 249 800 inhabitants.
The main cities are Ajaccio, Bastia, Sartène,
Corte, Calvi, Bonifacio, the Red Island and
Porto-Vecchio.
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THE
MOUNTAIN CORSICA |
Generally speaking the mountain is omnipresent
on the island, with an average height of 568
m. The island can be then considered really
as a mountain in the sea.
The " Corsican mountains "
- mountain cintu (on 2710 m)
- mountain Rotondo (on 2625 m)
- mountain Cardu (on 2435 m)
- mountain Of Oro (on 2391 m)
- mountain Renoso (on 2357 m)
- Incudine (on 2136 m)
- mountain Tozzu (on 2099 m)
- Stello mountain (on 1307 m)....
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THE
CLIMATE |
The climate in Corsica is of Mediterranean type,
with warm and dry summers, winters sweet and
wet.
The annual average temperature exceeds 12 °
C. The temperature of the sea water allows the
bathing of her in the middle of May in mid-October.
These temperatures reach their maximum in August
with an average of 29 ° for the air and
25 ° for the sea.
Of the beginning of June at the end of September,
the rain becomes rare in border of coast; thunderstorms,
sometimes violent burst into mountain, especially
towards the end of the summer. Corsica also
benefits from more than 2700 hours of period
of sunshine a year.
The winters are sweet but often rigorous in
mountain where the snow can hang on all year
long to certain summits. The practice of the
ski is moreover possible several months a year.
THE WEATHER REPORT IN CORSICA
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THE
GR 20 |
The GR20 is the fleuron of the mountain Corsica;
it is the path of height considered as being
the most difficult of Europe.
The GR20 offers to the warned walker an initiatory
journey in the heart of ' a world in the wild
beauty.
.Distance: 175 in 200 km,
· Made uneven total: more than 10 000m,
· Lasted: 12 in 15j of walking at the
rate of 5 at 10 am of walking a day.
· Difficulties: the sometimes difficult
steep, meteorological made uneven, some crests,
snow in the beginning of season, passages equipped
with banisters, some alpine stages.
The GR20 is the work of a man Michel Fabrikant.
The beaconing is for the standards of the F.F.R.P.
French union of Hike, c ' està to say
red and white.
The GR 20 leaves Calenzana, near Calvi to
end in Conca around of Port Vecchio, so crossing
the Regional Natural reserve.
It is thus 200 km of absolute beauty but
not divested of difficulty which the experienced
walker can cover.
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Route of the GR20 on the
card this against |
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SERVICES |
Community territorial of Corsica: 04.95.51.64.64.
Airport of Ajaccio Campo of the oro: 04.95.23.56.56.
Harbour and road station: 04.95.21.28.01.
Park Ajaccio FNRC: 04.95.23.11.03.
CMN: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.55.25.55
SNCM: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.54.66.90
Hospital: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.59.11.11
Central commissionership: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.55.22.22
C.R.O.S.S rescue in sea: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.20.13.63
Park Bastia FNRC: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.32.80.61
Coaches:
The Fast Overalls: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.31.03.79
Coaches S.I.T.B: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.31.06.65
Coaches Santini: 33 ( 0 ) 4.95.37.04.01
E NUTIZIE IN A CORSICA
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