Pointe-à-Pitre

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Pointe-à-Pitre
Lapwent
Pointe-à-Pitre coat of arms Location of the commune of Pointe-à-Pitre in the Guadeloupe department
region Guadeloupe
Department Guadeloupe
Arrondissement Pointe-à-Pitre
Canton Pointe-à-Pitre
Community association Cap Excellence
Coordinates 16 ° 14 ′  N , 61 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 16 ° 14 ′  N , 61 ° 32 ′  W
height 0-26 m
surface 2.66 km 2
Residents 15,923 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 5,986 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 97110
INSEE code 97120
Website www.ville-pointeapitre.fr

Market in Pointe-à-Pitre

Pointe-à-Pitre ( Guadeloupe Creole : Lapwent ) is a municipality with 15,923 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) and the largest city in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe . It is located in the west of the Grande-Terre island . It is the capital and seat of the sub-prefecture of the Arrondissement Pointe-à-Pitre .

Almost 100,000 people live in the metropolitan area around Pointe-à-Pitre, about a quarter of Guadeloupe's population. The Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport , which has daily flights from Paris, is named after the community, although he in the field of Common Les Abymes is.

In a ranking of cities according to their quality of life, Pointe-à-Pitre took 73rd place out of 231 cities worldwide in 2018.

Church Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul
Pointe-à-Pitre Airport
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: Météo-France
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Pointe-à-Pitre Airport
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 29.1 29.1 29.4 30.1 30.7 31.3 31.5 31.6 31.5 31.2 30.5 29.6 O 30.5
Min. Temperature (° C) 19.9 19.9 20.4 21.7 23.1 23.8 23.8 23.7 23.3 22.9 22.1 20.9 O 22.1
Precipitation ( mm ) 84.0 64.0 73.0 123.0 148.0 118.0 150.0 198.0 236.0 228.0 220.0 137.0 Σ 1,779
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history

The city was founded in 1763 under the name Morne Renfermé ("enclosed hill") after Guadeloupe fell from England to France again through the Peace of Paris . In 1780 the city was destroyed by a major fire. After its reconstruction, around sixty years later the city already had around 20,000 inhabitants. At that time the sugar industry was the city's main trade. Sugar was processed in over fifty factories that existed in and around Pointe-à-Pitre and was mainly intended for export to France.

On February 8, 1843, there was a devastating earthquake that almost completely destroyed the city and killed around 6000 people.

Population development
year 1967 1974 1982 1990 1999 2009
Residents 29,522 23,889 25,310 26,029 20,931 17,017

Town twinning

Since 1973 there has been a twinning with the French city of Orly .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Pointe-à-Pitre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mercer's 2018 Quality of Living Rankings. Retrieved August 18, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b The earthquake in Guadeloupe . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 2 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig July 8, 1843, p. 19-22 ( Wikisource ). .
  3. ↑ INSEE  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / recensement.insee.fr  
  4. ↑ Mairie-Orly.fr: “Jumelage” ( Memento from May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).