Geography
This is a rural town of Grande Terre (Bush). The municipality is located in both the mountains and along the sea beaches are tourist but remain wild, they are a place popular with surfers. The town lies at the confluence of several rivers, is the crossroads of many valleys Boghen, Bacouya, Nessadiou, Nera, Tene, La Pouéo ...
The territory of the municipality has various natural landscapes:
- Mining landscapes
- Landscapes of valleys and alluvial plains making Bourail the capital of the rural New Caledonia
- landscapes of mangroves
- a coastline made up of white sand beaches and beaches older
- seascapes including reefs and passes
With a density of 6 inhabitants / km ², Bourail offers an ideal balance between rural and urban, between tradition and modernity.
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