Bel Air (Seychelles)

Bel Air district of Seychelles
Geographic location :	Coordinates: 4 ° 38 ′  S , 55 ° 27 ′  E
Island:	Mahé (Seychelles)
Surface:	4.7 km²
Residents:	2921
Population density:	730 inhabitants / km²
Motto:	Source de Perles, amour d'un Peuple
ISO 3166-2 code	SC-09

Trwa Zwazo Roundabout with Bicentennial Monument and Independence House

Bel Air is one of the 25 administrative districts of the Seychelles . The district forms part of the capital Victoria and is one of the oldest settlements on the archipelago. Parts of the port, in particular the Inter-Island Ferry Terminal as well as some public facilities on Independence Avenue, belong to the district, which in its eastern area is one of the most popular residential areas of the Seychelles capital. There, at the foot of the 901 m high Morne Seychellois mountain, there is an old cemetery where many of the island's first settlers are buried. The cemetery, although already badly deteriorated, is a national monument and one of the sights on the island of Mahé. Also in Bel Air is the former Government House, which is now the State House of the President of the Seychelles. In 1956/57 the Cypriot Archbishop Makarios spent a little over a year in exile in a house in Bel Air.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Gazetteer website: Seychelles: Administrative division (population and area) . ( Memento of the original from December 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Queryed on December 16, 2010. 
2. ^ Government of the Seychelles: Statistical Bulletin, Population and Vital Statistics No. 2 of 2010 . National Statistics Bureau, Victoria 2010. (PDF; 890 kB)
3. ^ Government of the Seychelles: Virtual Seychelles - People & Culture . Retrieved September 11, 2009 (page is offline: http: virtualseychelles.sc/pecu/districts/pecu_districts5.htm)