Petit Canal
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Petit-Canal Ti Kannal or Kannal |
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| region | Guadeloupe |
| Department | Guadeloupe |
| Arrondissement | Pointe-à-Pitre |
| Canton | Petit Canal |
| Community association | North Grande-Terre |
| Coordinates | 16 ° 23 ′ N , 61 ° 29 ′ W |
| height | 0-70 m |
| surface | 70.50 km 2 |
| Residents | 8,220 (January 1, 2017) |
| Population density | 117 inhabitants / km 2 |
| Post Code | 97131 |
| INSEE code | 97119 |
 Place of the former slave market |
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Petit Canal ( Guadeloupe Creole : Ti Kannal or Kannal ) is a municipality with 8,220 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe on the archipelago of the same name .
geography
The city is located in the north of the island of Grande-Terre on the Anse du Canal bay on the Atlantic coast ( Côte ouest caraibe ). Neighboring municipalities of Petit-Canal are Anse-Bertrand in the north, Le Moule in the southeast and Morne-à-l'Eau in the south. The municipality covers 7050 hectares, the mean height is 35 meters above sea level , the Mairie stands at a height of 18 meters.
Petit-Canal is assigned to a climate zone of the type Af (according to Köppen and Geiger ): tropical rainforest climate (A), fully humid (f). There is a daytime climate in which the temperature differences between day and night are greater than the temperature differences between the individual months. The climatic water balance is positive all year round on average. The mean temperature remains above 18 ° C in all months.
history
The old name of Petit-Canal was Mancenillier . Mancenillier is the French word for Hippomane mancinella , a milkweed plant . Petit-Canal was founded towards the end of the 17th century. The sugar cane sticks were brought to the Duval sugar factory via the Canal des Rotours and through the municipality. The Canal des Rotours was the great canal and the parish was renamed Petit-Canal ('small canal'). The sugar factory later became a rum distillery and eventually closed.
In 1925 there were violent clashes between sugar cane planters and the gendarmerie . The reason was the low sugar cane price that the Duval factory was paying at the time. Six people were killed and the price of sugar cane was raised from 66.6 francs per ton to 73 francs per ton.
Attractions
The Saint-Philippe-Saint-Jacques church was built in 1931.
The old slave prison was entered in the supplementary directory of the Monuments historiques ('historical monuments') in 1991. The building is in poor condition. It was built in 1844 after the previous prison was destroyed by an earthquake.
economy
An important line of business for the Canaliens is fishing.
literature
- Raymond Boutin: Petit Canal, a commune de la Guadeloupe au XIXe Siècle . L'Harmattan, 1983, ISBN 2-85802-251-8 (French, limited preview in Google Book Search).
Web links
- Petit Canal in the Base Mémoire des Ministère de la Culture (French)
- Guided tour through the former sugar cane plantations (French)
Remarks
- ↑ http://guadlouptour.ifrance.com/ptcanal.html Page about Petit-Canal (French / English) Link dead, corresponding information is much more extensive in the literature below
- ↑ 3 & 4 février 1925: La grève à l'usine Duval, Petit-canal (French)
- ↑ Entry No. 97119 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- ^ Catherine A. Reinhardt: Claims to memory: beyond slavery and emancipation in the French Caribbean . In: Polygons: Cultural Diversities and Intersections Series . No. 10 . Berghahn Books, 2006, ISBN 978-1-84545-079-3 , pp. 136 f . (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).