The palm comes in 2 colours: The green one grows in the east coast of the Réunion, while the red one isd endemic to Tampon region.
In the early twentieth century, the town was the base for the murderer and sorcerer Sitarane.
He personally fought to get Paris to create a second high school on the south of the island, in Le Tampon, when at the time there was only one, the Lycée Leconte-de-Lisle, that catered for many thousands of inhabitants.
Union Sportive Stade Tamponnaise, is a football (soccer) club from Le Tampon, Réunion Island, founded in 1982 as the result of the fusion between S/S Tamponnaise founded in 1922 and Stade Tamponnais founded in 1971.
Willy Blain (born April 24, 1978 in Le Tampon, Réunion) is a French boxer, best known to win the 2003 amateur world title in the Light Welterweight (– 64 kg) division.