Punaauia

Local namePunaʻauiʻa
LocationFrench Polynesia

Punaʻauia is a commune in the suburbs of Papeʻete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Punaʻauia is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part of the Society Islands. In the late 1890s, the French painter Paul Gauguin lived in Punaʻauia. Here he painted his masterpiece Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?. The commune borders Faʻaʻā on the north and Pāʻea on the south.

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punaauia

Coordinates -17°35'34.513" N -149°36'22.921" E

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