Habitation La Grivelière (Grivelière House) is a coffee plantation and

coffeehouse A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-ca ...

Vieux-Habitants Vieux-Habitants ( French for ''Old Inhabitants'') is a commune on Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean. It is located on the southwest coast of the island of Basse-Terre. History This is the oldest parish, founded in 1636, ...

Basse-Terre Basse-Terre (, ; ; gcf, label=Guadeloupean Creole, Bastè, ) is a commune in the French overseas department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. It is also the ''prefecture'' (capital city) of Guadeloupe. The city of Basse-Terre is located ...

Guadeloupe Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...

, an

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. Founded in the late 17th century, it has been classified as a ''

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'' since 1987. The plantation is located along the

Grande Rivière des Vieux-Habitants Grande Rivière des Vieux-Habitants is a river in the Guadeloupe National Park, Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. It is long. Its course starts at the Petit Sans Toucher before it passes through the town of Vieux-Habitants where it separates into two bran ...

within the

Guadeloupe National Park Guadeloupe National Park (french: Parc national de la Guadeloupe) is a national park in Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France located in the Leeward Islands of the eastern Caribbean region. The Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin Nature Reserv ...

, at above sea level. It operates under the auspices of

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. One of the buildings has been re-purposed into a coffeehouse. It is one of the best preserved agricultural estates in the

Lesser Antilles The Lesser Antilles ( es, link=no, Antillas Menores; french: link=no, Petites Antilles; pap, Antias Menor; nl, Kleine Antillen) are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Most of them are part of a long, partially volcanic island arc betwe ...

. Habitation La Grivelière contains a dozen buildings including a manor house, overseer's house, houses of permanent workers, two ''boucans'', a roasting shed, mills, an oratory and five slave huts.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Habitation La Griveliere Monuments historiques of Guadeloupe

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