Babonneau is one of the regions of the Caribbean

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Saint Lucia Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...

. Babonneau is located in the north of the island in the

Castries Quarter Castries District is one of 10 districts (formerly called quarters) of the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia. According to the 2012 census, the population of the district was 80,573, having shown a slow but steady increase over the past ten ...

. There are extensive rain forests in the region, which is an important source of fresh water for Saint Lucia. Babonneau is also an electoral constituency of Saint Lucia represented in the

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, which extends into

Gros Islet District Gros Islet District, one of 10 first order subdivision (districts, formerly quarters) of the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia which includes the island's northernmost point, Cap Point and the notable Cap Estate, where the renowned St. Luci ...

Government

The Babonneau District is an electoral district represented in the

. The district has been represented since July 2021 by Virginia Albert Poyotte as the Parliamentary Representative. The district elected their representative during the countries recent general election.

Region and communities within Babonneau

The area of Babonneau contains 16 rural settlements with a population in 2001 of 6,602 and area of . The people of Babonneau are mainly of African descent, descendants of slaves brought by the French and British to Saint Lucia in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The French explorer Joseph Gaspard Tascher de la Pagerie settled in Babonneau in 1763. French-based creole (kwéyòl) also known as Patois is the preferred spoken language in Babonneau. The community of Babonneau is three miles from

Castries Castries is the capital and largest city of Saint Lucia, an island country in the Caribbean. The urban area has a population of approximately 20,000, while the eponymous district has a population of 70,000, as at May 2013. The city stretches o ...

. The name comes from either a family with that last name or the French word ''barre-bonne-eau'' meaning “the ridge where there is good water” in English. Saint Lucia has claim to two

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recipients: *

Sir Arthur Lewis Sir William Arthur Lewis (23 January 1915 – 15 June 1991) was a Saint Lucian economist and the James Madison Professor of Political Economy at Princeton University. Lewis was known for his contributions in the field of economic development. I ...

(born in 1914), Nobel Prize for Economics *

Derek Walcott Sir Derek Alton Walcott (23 January 1930 – 17 March 2017) was a Saint Lucian poet and playwright. He received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. His works include the Homeric epic poem ''Omeros'' (1990), which many critics view "as Walcot ...

(born in 1930), Nobel Prize for Literature Communities and sites within Babonneau include: *Cacoa, population: 520, *Chassin, population: 310, *Babonneau Proper, population: 543, *Cabiche, population: 564, *Resinard, population: 556, *En Pois Doux, population: 6, *Fond Assau, population: 706, *Morne Assau, population: 36, *Hill 20, population: 312, *Babonneau Estate, (Gros Islet District) *Babonneau Secondary School, *Babonneau River mouth, (Gros Islet District)

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Regions of the Caribbean Geography of Saint Lucia Subdivisions of Saint Lucia {{SaintLucia-geo-stub

Government

Region and communities within Babonneau

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