Basseterre
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| Coordinates | 17 ° 17 '54 " N , 62 ° 44' 3" W | ||
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| Country | St. Kitts and Nevis | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | KN-K | ||
| height | 15 m | ||
| surface | 6.1 km² | ||
| Residents | 12,900 | ||
| density | 2,114.8 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1627 | ||
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Basseterre ([English: bæsˈtɛə , French: basˈtɛːr ], French for "Lower Land") is the capital of the island federation of St. Kitts and Nevis in the Lesser Antilles . It is located on the south coast of the island of St. Kitts .
More than a quarter of the state's population, around 13,000, live in the capital, which is also a trading center. In the city and in the immediate vicinity are two airports (the larger one is Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport ) and several sugar refineries.
The Garden Hotspurs FC football club comes from the city.
history
Basseterre was founded by French colonists under the leadership of Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc in 1625. The city was the first permanently established French colony in the Caribbean.
Attractions
- The consecrated on December 6, 1928 Catholic Basseterre Co-Cathedral of Immaculate Conception on Independence Square in the city center since the renaming of the Diocese of Saint John's from St. Kitts and Nevis in the diocese Saint John's-Basseterre , the Co-Cathedral .
- Berkeley Memorial
sons and daughters of the town
- Joan Armatrading , singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Clement Athelston Arrindell , Governor and later Governor General of St. Kitts and Nevis
- Alan Cuthbert Burns , British colonial governor
- Desai Williams , athlete
Individual evidence
- ^ Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year 2009 . Encyclopaedia Britannica, Chicago 2009. ISBN 978-1-59339-838-5 . P. 763.
Web links
Commons : Basseterre - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Basseterre - Travel Guide
