HAUTE-CORSE INFORMATION
HAUTE-CORSE Geography
The department of Haute-Corse is surrounded on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea and on the south by the department of Corse-du-Sud.
HAUTE-CORSE History
The department was formed on September 15, 1975, when the department of Corse was divided into Haute-Corse and Corse-du-Sud. The department corresponds exactly to the former department of Golo which existed between 1793 and 1811.
HAUTE-CORSE Demographics
HAUTE-CORSE Culture
The Corsicans are a fiercely independent people. However, a July 6, 2003 referendum on increased autonomy was voted down by a very thin majority: 50.98 percent against to 49.02 percent for. This was a major setback for French Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy, who had hoped to use Corsica as the first step in his decentralization policies.
HAUTE-CORSE Climat
Naturally enough, Corsica has a Mediterranean climate - at least at coastal levels. Prevailing winds are south-westerly, westerly and north-westerly. This of course, varies considerably with altitude and mountain forms. At about 1500 metres it becomes alpine. Don't forget that the island goes from sea level to about 9 000 feet, with a land mass only about 100 by 50 miles. Micro climates give a wide variety of temperatures and precipitation. This is especially true between north-west and south-east, as the main mountain range divides the island roughly in half. As a general rule the north is hotter than the south.
The three principal micro-climates are: maritime Mediterranean in the valleys, mountain Mediterranean in the lower mountains and a real mountain climate at the higher altitudes. If you intend to explore the mountains, you'll need to hire a car - and you can hire a car in Corsica here.
Summers are long - from May till October. Winters can be cold and there's generally snow on the highest peaks until June, but by then, the ambient temperature is in the mid-20s°C (mid 70s°F). The average for the year is 12° and the average (about 54°F) and quarterly temperatures average.
HAUTE-CORSE Tourism
Corsica with its exceptional climate, offers a vast array of services, throughout the year and over its whole territory..
First of all Corsica is a Festival of Events!
The Natural Regional country Park of Corsica will delight the lovers of virgin spaces. The park authorities have laid out over 1500 kilometers of hiking trails.
Your Holiday in Corsica will allow you the practice a great variety of activities.
Under the surface, among the gorgonias and coral, big groupers, escorted by "corbs", "dentis" or by "sars tambours" await you. You will feel like you are in a three-dimensional movie, while you enjoy a quiet which would be hardly accessible elsewhere.
No need to lure them to meet them.
Better than the temple's guardians, they will be really the guides of your most beautiful divings.
Leave for a few moments a world that you know only too well, to apprehend an other one that you do not know enough, and which is nevertheless so near, and from where we all are born of.
Maybe you will keep in a comer of your mind and of your heart, a respectful impression of the littoral environment.
HAUTE-CORSE Administration
Department number : 2B
Region : Corsica
Prefecture : Bastia
Subprefectures : Calvi, Corte
Arrondissements : 3
Cantons : 30
Communes : 236
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