For any information contact the Town hall of Touho, which is opened from Monday to Thursday from 7 am to 11:30 pm and from 12:30 am to 4 pm, and on FRIDAY from 12:30 am to 3 pm.
Touho is administrativly the chief place and the place where concentrate the majority of the business activities. It is divided into 2 districts: POYES and TOUHO.
POYES gathers Tiouandé, Ouanache, Téganpaik, Congouma, Paola, Pombei, Tiouaé.
TOUHO gathers Old Touho, Touho Mission, Koé-Ponandou, Kokingone-Pouiou.
The population of the town live in several places of dwellings: the Village and 11 tribes.
By taking the transversal road of Koné - Tiwaka, the tribes of Pombei, Kokingone, Pouiou small enclave which is located at the seaside, and Koé follow one another. The Village appears just after. While going up in North you will find the tribes of Touho-Mission, Old Touho, Tiwae, Paola, Congouma, Tegenpaik, Ouanache and Tiouandé.
Tiwandé is the last tribe of Touho before the bridge of Tipindjé on the border with the town of Hienghène.
Touho counts various ethnos groups:Kanak, Européens, Indonésiens, Wallisian, Metropolitan and others. French and several vernacular languages are spoken there like Cemuhi (from Pombei to Congouma), Vamailey (Teganpaik), Pidjé (Tiwande).
The most practised religions are Catholicism and Protestantism.
All the tribes can be visited: that they are at the seaside, in the mountains or close to the rivers. All the roads of this commune are practicable. Touho is the only town from the East coast having an aerodrome opened to the public circulation 3 times per week: Monday morning, Wednesday morning and Friday evening. A marina can accomodate 17 boats. Accomodation are available in the center of the village. The hotel-restorant "Alison’s" is located at 100 meters from the town hall. The camp-site at the edge of bay of Touho is held by Mr Lévêque.
Tourism is developed in the tribes: the reception at the inhabitant, the lodgings and the restaurants, the camp-sites, pedestrian path, dugouts on the rivers, small island.
The main economic point of Touho are the shipyard and the professional college AugustinTy.
This college proposed two degrees: BEP in driving marinates and CAP of management of assistance in the marine environment.
Touho’s facilities:
-The allotments "Tops of Hôt"
-Two elementary schools (Village and in Paola)
-The catholic school (Touho mission)
-2 FELP (one in Tiwaé and another in Koé)
-SIVM (Inter-communal Trade union with Multiple Vocation)
-the town hall services
-The Direction of Northern Installation
-TEASOA
-In the center of the village: a post office, a Police station, a pharmacy, a dispensary, and private ambulance VSL of Congouma.
Shops: food store, modern bakery, a petrole station, a garage, a store of DVD.
Sport activities: Shooting with the arc, tennis Club of Touho, football, cricket.
To be seen: The mission was created in 1853, the church with the porch of Romance style and with the cylindrical bell-tower was built in 1889. Sights on rocks of pombei, the falls of Kokingone, the leisure place of Pouiou, the beach of Tianite, the river of Tipindjé and the river of Thiem.
TRADITIONAL JAM OF TOUHO-VILLAGE
If you are greedy and if you like traditional jam and the odor suave coming from basins where it has been cooked during hours.
Evelyne PETIT JEAN works at home, and produces on average 18 000 to 20 000 pots of jams per annum. She exerts her talents on behalf of the agricultural grouping of the producers of the East Cost (GAPCE).
Phone Number: 42 88 76.
The HONEY PRODUCER is located at the village. Alfred KASTAN develops the bee-keeping since many years, it has a hundred hives located close to the port, in the valley of Tiwae and in mountain. Alfred makes and sells its honey to professionnals and individuals also on the behalf of the agricultural grouping of the producers of the East Cost (GAPCE).
REDGY
Redgy is a great personality of Touho. After having worked in the merchant navy, he made trawling, fished shrimp in Guyana and the elver in the mouths of the French rivers which are thrown in the Atlantic Ocean. Now he lives in the quiet port of Touho, to fish the "vivaneau" while trying to preserve this specie. For eleven years, he goes on the sea in boat and can stay five days along the récifale cost, if time allows it. Its boat, a Japanese wreck reinflated at Thio, is equipped with the most performant technological instruments with software of bathymetric survey which allows a biomass inventory! Only the vivaneaux fish interests him. Lately, it took one of 22kg which is supposed to be about 80-100 years old : beautiful catch! If time is dubious, it goes less further, made some 20 minutes quarters while trying to make profitable its exit. Its boat contains 5 cooled holds in which it can store 200 kg of fish.
Good wind, Redgy the Flamand...
And keep fishing vivaneaux for the greatest pleasure of the greedy ones.
Pay still a long time!
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