INDIAS OCCIDENTALES FRANCESAS - FRENCH WEST INDIES | Guadeloupe | Images and Urban Discussions

Les Antilles Françaises
La Guadeloupe "Gwada" - Karukera

Guadeloupe is an archipelago of roughly 7 islands (1628km²), it's part of the French Republic and Europpean Union, exactly like Martinique its "ile-soeur" (sister-island)
Population: 407719 inh (2009)
Capital : Basse-Terre .... but the largest city and the economic capital is Pointe-à-Pitre.
Languages : French and French-based creole of Guadeloupe
GDP per Capita : 23,042 USD






This thread is about the landscape of this achipelago. They are various due to the large number of islands but also because Guadeloupe is the only carribean territory located over the 2 arcs of the west Indies :

Volcanic arc: "mountainous islands"
Guadeloupe : Basse-Terre, Les Saintes
Other caribbean islands : Dominica, Martinique, St-Lucia, Grenada, Saba ...

Coral arc: "flat and dry islands"
Guadeloupe : Grande-Terre, Petite-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade
Other caribbean islands: Barbados, Antigua, Saint-Martin, Anguilla ...

Let's see an overview of the islands that you will keep in mind




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Grande-Terre and Marie-Galante are flats with falls, they are bigger in G-T (First photo) but there is also white sand beaches, (second photo, in Marie-Galante)


Portes de l'enfer par Casteill, sur Flickr

Marie-Galante - L'Anse Taliseronde par pierMG, sur Flickr

The empty islands of Petite-Terre (on the back it's La Désirade)


Petite Terre-7 par Capucine et Ludovic, sur Flickr

La Désirade :cheers:


L'île de La Désirade par Fabrice ROSE, sur Flickr

The mountainous island of Basse-Terre, you can see a part of the capital Basse-Terre and the volcano la Soufrière on the right


Basse Terre, Guadalope, Caribbean par Sam Ellis, sur Flickr

Les Chutes du Carbet in Basse-Terre (we are not so far from Marie-Galante and see the contrast :nuts

Untitled par mφop plaφer, sur Flickr

Les Saintes


Les Saintes #4 par woueb, sur Flickr

A part of les Saintes, view from Basse-Terre island. On the back it's Dominica
Check this link out : http://www.flickr.com/photos/rh-p/1659014456/lightbox/

Les Saintes & Dominica par rachel_thecat, sur Flickr