Guadeloupe
By: Daymian Frazier
Where it's located
Physical Features
Basse-Terre is lush, with dense forested areas. It's dominated by a single (still-active) volcano, La Soufriere. It stands at 4,687 ft. (1,484m). Grande-Terre is mostly a flat limestone-base island, with a few coastal mangrove swamps north of Point-a-Pitre. The other smaller islands are hilly and volcanic in origin. A few small rivers (streams) drain Basse-Terre
Four Major Cites
The four major cites in Guadeloupe is Les Abymes, Baie-Mahault, Le Gosier, and Sainte Anna.
Guadeloupe Official Flag
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Guadeloupe National Park
- Guadalupe Mountains National Park preserves one of the finest examples of an ancient, marine fossil reef on Earth. During the Permian period, about 265 million years ago, a vast tropical sea covered much of the region. Within this sea, calcareous sponges, algae, and other lime-secreting marine organisms, along with lime precipitated from the seawater, built up and formed a reef that paralleled the shoreline for 400 miles. After this sea evaporated, the reef was buried in thick blankets of sediment and mineral salts, and was entombed for millions of years until uplift exposed massive portions of it. Today, geologists and scientists come from around the world to study this phenomenal example of a fossilized reef.
Guadeloupe Zoo
Located in the middle of the National Park, Parc des Mamelles is dedicated to the conservation of the rainforest and of different endangered species.
A true Noah’s ark of modern times, it shelters 85 species originating from the Caribbean and Guyana: mammals, birds, reptiles and arthropods.Your children will have the chance to meet Victor the Jaguar, and they will discover Kaz a Tarzan, a network of bridges, slides and secret passage ways!
The only problem is that you will have a hard time to convince them to leave
Scuba Diving
- When it comes to the islands of the French Caribbean, Guadeloupe is the most popular country for diving . Not only are the waters that surround Guadeloupe relatively calm, but the government has taken certain measures to ensure protection of the area's marine life. This allows coral, fish, and other sea creatures to thrive, and gives divers the opportunity to see them at their finest.