Navua District is located within Serua Province in the Central Division

Central Division, Fiji

The Central Division of Fiji is one of Fiji's four divisions. It consists of five provinces - Naitasiri, Namosi, Rewa, Serua and Tailevu.The capital of the division is Suva, which is also the capital of Fiji. The division includes the eastern part of the largest island in Fiji, Viti Levu, with a...

 of Fiji

Fiji

Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...

. During colonial times it used to be a sugar growing area, but the closure of the sugar mill in Navua in 1923 led to a decline in economic activity in the district. The construction of a resort at Pacific Harbour in the 1970s and an influx of tourist related activities has led to increase in economic activity in the area.

Famous people from Navua

• C.P. Singh
• B.D. Lakshman
  B.D. Lakshman
  Brahma Dass Lakshman was an Indo-Fijian politician, union leader and businessman, who had a considerable influence on Fiji’s sugar industry.- Education and teaching career :...
  
  
• Chaitanya Lakshman
  Chaitanya Lakshman
  Chaitanya Lakshman is a Fiji Indian lawyer, social worker and politician who served in the multi-party cabinet of the Qarase Government as Minister for Local Government....
  
  
• Prince Gopal Lakshman
  Prince Gopal Lakshman
  Prince Gopal Lakshman is a former Fijian politician of Indian descent. In the House of Representatives he represented the Viti Levu South Kadavu Indian Communal Constituency from 1999 to 2006...
  
  
• Paresh Narayan
  Paresh Narayan
  Professor Paresh Kumar Narayan , is an academic of Fiji Indian origin, who is Australia's youngest Professor of Finance and is now the chair of finance at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.- Early life and education:...
  
  
• Vashist Muni
  Vashist Muni
  Sadhu Vashist Muni was a Hindu missionary from India, who came into prominence in Fiji when he assumed the leadership of the strike in the western districts of Fiji in 1921. Mystery surrounded him during his short stay in Fiji and tales of his miraculous deeds still circulate in Fiji...
  
  
• Vishnu Deo
  Vishnu Deo
  Pandit Vishnu Deo OBE was the first Fiji born and bred leader of the Fiji Indians. From 1929, when he was first elected to the Legislative Council, until his retirement in 1959, he remained the most powerful Fiji Indian political leader in Fiji...
  
  

See also

• Navua River
  Navua River
  The Navua River is located in the island of Viti Levu in Fiji and has its source on the south east slope of Mount Gordon and flows for 65 kilometers to the south coast...
  
  
• Navua F.C.
  Navua F.C.
  Navua F.C. is a Fijian football team playing in the first division of the Fiji Football Association competitions.They are based in Navua, which is situated on the southern side of the main island of Viti Levu, between the town of Sigatoka and the city of Suva. Their home stadium is Thomson Park....
  
  

Ratu Suliano Matanitobua - paramount Chief of the province of Namosi, one of the two provinices in which the District of navua is a suburb

External links

• Map showing location of Navua