Canavaggia

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Coordinates: 42°30′09″N 9°15′55″E / 42.5025, 9.2653

Commune of Canavaggia
Canavaghja
Location
Canavaggia (France)
Canavaggia
Administration
Country France
Region Corse
Department Haute-Corse
Arrondissement Bastia
Canton Alto-di-Casaconi
Statistics
Elevation 698 m (2290 ft) (avg.)
Land area¹ 25.3 km²
Population²
(1999)		 98
 - Density 3/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 2B059/ 20235
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
France

Canavaggia is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. It shares the canton of Alto-di-Casaconi with Monte, Volpajola, Campile, Olmo, Prunelli-di-Casacconi, Campitello, Ortiporio, Lento, Bigorno, Scolca, Crocicchia and Penta-Acquatella.[1]

[edit] Geography

Ortiporio is in the west of the canton, 9 km (6 mi) from Campitello; its western boundary is fixed by Asco, its southern by Golo, just under 1245 m (4085 ft) Mont Quercitellu; it is the old chief place of the pieve de Caccia, absorbed into the canton of Campitello in 1874.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ France, le trésor des régions: Département: Haut-Corse (html). Retrieved on 2008-05-06. (French).


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