Avatoru
Avatoru is the chief town of Rangiroa, a coral atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago. It is located in the northwestern part of the atoll, and is home to the atoll's administration buildings, its post office and several churches. Rangiroa Airport is located 5.5 km southeast of Avatoru.Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple d’Avatoru and Église Saint-Michel d’Avatoru.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tiputa.
Tiputa
Village
Tiputa is a village on the French Polynesian atoll of Rangiroa, in the Tuamotu archipelago. Tiputa is situated 9 km southeast of Avatoru.
Avatoru
- Type: Village with 700 residents
- Description: human settlement in France
- Category: locality
- Location: Rangiroa, Tuamotu-Gambier Islands, Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia, Polynesia, Oceania
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-14.94197° or 14° 56′ 31″ south
Longitude
-147.70615° or 147° 42′ 22″ west
Population
700
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
53QJ375V+6G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Avatoru from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Avatoru” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Avatoru”
- Catalan: “Avatoru”
- Corsican: “Avatoru”
- Croatian: “Avatoru”
- Czech: “Avatoru”
- Danish: “Avatoru”
- Dutch: “Avatoru”
- Estonian: “Avatoru”
- Finnish: “Avatoru”
- French: “Avatoru”
- Galician: “Avatoru”
- German: “Avatoru”
- Hungarian: “Avatoru”
- Indonesian: “Avatoru”
- Irish: “Avatoru”
- Italian: “Avatoru”
- Japanese: “アヴァトル”
- Latvian: “Avatoru”
- Lithuanian: “Avatoru”
- Luxembourgish: “Avatoru”
- Narom: “Avatoru”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Avatoru”
- Polish: “Avatoru”
- Portuguese: “Avatoru”
- Romanian: “Avatoru”
- Romansh: “Avatoru”
- Russian: “Аватору”
- Slovak: “Avatoru”
- Slovenian: “Avatoru”
- Spanish: “Avatoru”
- Swedish: “Avatoru”
- Tahitian: “Avatoru”
- Turkish: “Avatoru”
- Urdu: “اواتورو”
- Welsh: “Avatoru”
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