 Guadeloupe is located in the Northern Hemisphere at 16° of latitude and 61° of longitude West between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean.
Tucked between Dominica to the South and Antigua to the North, Guadeloupe is an archipelago full of diversity. It is the largest of the Lesser Antilles (more than1700 sq Km). It’s made of 6 islands, two of which form the big island in a shape of a butterfly (Grande-Terre and Basse-Terre). And there’s Marie-Galante also known as "The Isle of a 100 windmills", the largest of the Guadeloupe dependency islands...
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It is said that amazing things come in a small package and that’s what Marie-Galante is all about. It may only lie on 150 km2 but is a wonderous place, indeed !
The island has got 3 villages, Saint-Louis, Grand-Bourg and Capesterre and invites you to share the splendor of its culture, natural beauty and history...
Setting foot on Marie-Galante is stunning from the shore to its changing topography. The plains, the cliffs in the North East, the Mangrove swamps and its unriveled plateau...
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 The archipelago of ‘The Saintes’ is made of 9 islands. Two of which are inhabitated, Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas. The latter is smaller than the other one and they are separated by a 3-kilometer wide channel.
 Two beautiful islands with inhabitants, descendants of seamen from Brittany, France. Most of whom live on Terre-de-Haut. The lanscape is dry on Terre-de-Haut, whereas the vegetation’s more dense on neighboring Terre-de-Bas. Fishing is the main industry here. So much that the boats used here are called ‘Saintoises’.
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 La Désirade, land so desired by famous explorer, Christopher Columbus and his sailor men. It is located 15 kilometers off the Eastern Shores of Guadeloupe at "La Pointe des Châteaux".
During the 18th century and throughout the 20th century the island was a lepers’ colony. The ruins of the lepers’ clinic can still be seen today in the village of Baie-Mahault...
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 Certains territoires de part la beauté de leur patrimoine naturel ont poussé les hommes à prendre des mesures particulières visant à leur protection. C’est ainsi qu’en France, ont été créés 9 Parcs nationaux :
La Vanoise (1963)
Port-Cros (1963)
Les Pyrénées (1967)
Les Cévennes (1970)
Les Ecrins (1973)
Le Mercantour (1979)
La Guadeloupe (février 1989)
La Guyane (février 2007)
La Réunion (mars 2007)
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Read more... [Le Parc National de Guadeloupe]
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