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 Guadeloupe

Prepare your business trip

 Trade Shows

The Trade Fairs and Shows in the CWTC of Jarry (in FR)

 Tourism

Lots of information and addresses for a nice stay

 
 Travel

The Airlines
Pôle Caraïbes Airport:
  Arrivals-Departures
(FR)


 Weather forecast

Météo Pointe-à-Pitre https://www.my-meteo.com

 
ARCHIPELAGO GUADELOUPE

Guadeloupe is the biggest archipelago of the Lesser Antilles
(1.705 km² - 421313 acres). 7 inhabitated islands are part of it:

  Basse-Terre
Grande-Terre
Marie Galante
The Saintes
Désirade
  The Northern French
Territorial Collectivitiy:
Saint Martin
Associated Overseas
territory (P.T.O.M.):
Saint Bartholomew
map of guadeloupe

The two mains islands (Grande and Basse Terre), are linked up by a narrow arm of the sea, the Rivière Salée.

Basse-Terre (848 km²-209545 acres) is mountainous, covered with tropical forest, 300 km²/74131 acres of which is a Natural Parc, and with a great number of banana plantations; the highest volcano of the Antilles - la Soufrière (1.467m) - and the longest river of the archipelago, the Rivière à Goyaves (32 km of length) are situated in this area.
The capital, the town of Basse-Terre, also is situated on this part of the island.

Grande-Terre (590 km²-145792 acres) is of limestone and rather flat (the highest point is: Morne l'Escale in the Grands Fonds, (135 m above the sea level). Here is the home of sugar cane, but she is also the part that is most urbanized with the economical capital of Pointe-à-Pitre and its suburbs.

The other islands are called the "dependencies": Marie Galante, with its pancake shape is the biggest one, the archipelago of the Saintes with Terre de Haut and Terre de Bas south of Basse-Terre and Désirade, look-out post of the archipelago east of Grande-Terre. More distant (200 km - 124 miles) north-north-west, since 2007 French Territorial Collectivities, are Saint Barth and Saint Martin which is divided in a Netherland part (1/3 south) and a French part (53 km²/13097 acres with the small island of Tintamarre).

 
 
Useful Information

PRESS: regional news (FR)

Radio RFI RADIO: news in creole language

 
DOMemploi
Job opportunities Guadeloupe (FR)

 
STATISTICS:main data about Guadeloupe (FR)

 
STOCK EXCHANGE: (FR)
First french Market
Indice bourse Cac 40
CAC40

TAX ADVANTAGES:
- new regulations (FR)

  INFO FRENCH OVERSEAS
by the Secretary of State
for Overseas (FR)
- Press review
- Speeches
- Press release
- Laws

PUBLIC SERVICES (FR)
- Mayors' Association
  of Guadeloupe

- Sites and adresses
  local public services

PHONE DIRECTORIES
- Yellow pages
- Reverse search

 
MAIL SERVICES (FR)
- Tracking Chronoposte
- Postal rates


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