Saint-André, Réunion

This area between the Saint-Jean and the Mât rivers has been populated since the middle of the 17th century. Indeed, the first exiles were confined to Bourbon in 1646 by Mr. Promis, governor of the French Comptoir of Fort-Dauphin, to curb their mutinous ardor. Disembarked from the Saint-Laurent, they were settled in the Quartier des Français, on the banks of the Saint-Jean River. The region of Saint-André has historically seen the landing of the first French.

Geography

Climate

Saint-André has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The average annual temperature in Saint-André is 24.6 °C (76.3 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,503.8 mm (98.57 in) with March as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in February, at around 27.4 °C (81.3 °F), and lowest in July, at around 21.8 °C (71.2 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Saint-André was 34.0 °C (93.2 °F) on 18 March 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 13.3 °C (55.9 °F) on 3 July 2005.