Figari

French commune
nomcommune=Figari
native_name=
région=Corsica
département=Corse-du-Sud
arrondissement=Sartène
canton=Figari
insee=2A114
cp=20114
maire=
mandat=
intercomm=
longitude=9.13
latitude=41.4888888889
alt moy=125 m
alt mini=0 m
alt maxi=1,366 m
hectares=10,022
km²=100.22
sans=1,005
date-sans=1999
dens=10
date-dens=1999

Figari is a commune of the Corse-du-Sud department of France on the island of Corsica. It is also the chief commune of the canton of Figari, which also includes Sotta, Pianottoli-Caldarello and Monacia-d'Aullène for a canton total of 2900 persons, convert|249.35|km2|sp=us.

Geography

The village of Figari is convert|43|km|sp=us to the southeast of Sartène, convert|20|km|abbr=on to the southwest of Porto-Vecchio and convert|19|km|abbr=on to the north of Bonifacio. The commune comes from an ancient parish. It includes the center of a large plain where the airport was built in 1975. To the north looms Mount Cagna, which exceeds convert|1100|m|sp=us.

To the southeast hills climb to convert|320|m|abbr=on over the village and enclose a reservoir created by damming the Ruisseau de Ventilegne for purposes of water supply and irrigation; additional water can be taken from the Orgone, a small brook which descends from the mountain of Cagna et forms the upper stream of the Stabbiacciu in Porto-Vecchio. To the southwest the commune occupies the east bank of the Bay of Figari, and Ventilegne Point, but not the resort. [cite web|title=France, le trésor des régions: Département: Corse-du-Sud|url=http://tresordesregions.mgm.fr/Mdir.php?p=cant.php&region=94&cl=|format=html|accessdate=2008-05-06 fr icon.]

Economy

Viticulture is practiced on convert|153|ha, for making Vin de Corse-Figari.

Transportation

The airport, Figari Sud-Corse Airport, is the third largest of Corsica. [cite web|url=http://www.figari.aeroport.fr/|title=Figari South Corsica|publisher=CCI Ajaccio and South Corsica|format=html|accessdate=2008-05-21 fr icon, en icon. Live flight information can be obtained at: cite web|url=http://www.flightstats.com/go/Airport/airportDetails.do;jsessionid=4C9AF10190FC25C4EEDCDD05BFF1EC8F.rod:8009?airport=%28FSC%29+Sud+Corse+Airport%2C+Figari%2C+FR&x=10&y=8|title=(FSC) Sud Corse Airport, Figari, FR|format=html|accessdate=2008-05-21] It opened in 1975 with a runway of convert|2500|m|sp=us. In 2004 it carried 254000 passengers, 117000 between the airport and Paris, 63000 - Marseille, 34000 - Nice, 37000 in charters.

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