Figari

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Coordinates: 41°29′20″N 9°07′48″E / 41.4888888889, 9.13

Administration
Commune of Figari
Location

Country	France
Region	Corsica
Department	Corse-du-Sud
Arrondissement	Sartène
Canton	Figari
Statistics
Elevation	0 m–1,366 m (avg. 125 m)
Land area^¹	100.22 km²
Population^² (1999)	1,005
- Density	10/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	2A114/ 20114
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.

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, 24935 ha.

1 Geography
2 Economy
3 Transportation
4 Notes

[edit] Geography

The village of Figari is 43 km (27 mi) to the southeast of Sartène, 20 km (12 mi) to the southwest of Porto-Vecchio and 19 km (12 mi) 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 1100 m (3609 ft).

To the southeast hills climb to 320 m (1050 ft) 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.^[1]

[edit] Economy

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

[edit] Transportation

The airport, Figari Sud-Corse Airport, is the third largest of Corsica.^[2] It opened in 1975 with a runway of 2500 m (8202 ft). In 2004 it carried 254000 passengers, 117000 between the airport and Paris, 63000 - Marseille, 34000 - Nice, 37000 in charters.