Piton de la Fournaise

Volcano on the French oversea department La Réunion
Mountain shield_volcano Q1049644
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Piton de la Fournaise

Summary

Piton de la Fournaise is a shield volcano[1]. It draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (shield_volcano category, ranking #8 of 56).[2]

Key Facts

  • Piton de la Fournaise is located in Sainte-Rose[3].
  • Piton de la Fournaise is located in Saint-Philippe[4].
  • Piton de la Fournaise is in the country of France[5].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's image is recorded as Piton de La Fournaise - Paysage de l'île de La Réunion.jpg[6].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's continent is recorded as Africa[7].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's instance of is recorded as shield volcano[8].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's instance of is recorded as summit[9].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's instance of is recorded as highest point[10].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's made from material is recorded as basalt[11].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's made from material is recorded as picrobasalt[12].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's made from material is recorded as trachybasalt[13].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's made from material is recorded as tephrite[14].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's made from material is recorded as basanite[15].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 170186947[16].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's GND ID is recorded as 4342215-9[17].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh90001343[18].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 151819561[19].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's IdRef ID is recorded as 028693655[20].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's Commons category is recorded as Piton de la Fournaise[21].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's has part is recorded as Dolomieu Crater[22].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's has part is recorded as Cratère Bory[23].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's has part is recorded as La Soufrière[24].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's highest point is recorded as Cratère Bory[25].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -21.243116, 'lon': 55.707236}[26].
  • Piton de la Fournaise's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03tr8w[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Piton de la Fournaise include Symphysanodon pitondelafournaisei[28], a taxon[29] and Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory[30], a volcano observatory[31], in France[32], founded in 1979[33].

Why It Matters

Piton de la Fournaise draws 201 Wikipedia views per month (shield_volcano category, ranking #8 of 56).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for it include Symphysanodon pitondelafournaisei[28], a taxon[29] and Piton de la Fournaise Volcano Observatory[30], a volcano observatory[31], in France[32], founded in 1979[33].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
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  7. [3] . wikidata.org.
  8. [4] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . volcano.si.edu. volcano.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . volcano.si.edu. volcano.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . volcano.si.edu. volcano.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . volcano.si.edu. volcano.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . volcano.si.edu. volcano.si.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Géoportail. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Géoportail. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has climbing route Q3478776
    Has part(s) Dolomieu Crater, Cratère Bory, La Soufrière
    Parent peak Piton des Neiges
    Elevation above sea level {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+2621'}
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P4839]]: Entity["Mountain", "PitonDeLaFournaise"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257096|batch #257096]]"
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