Guadeloupe is a group of nine islands of the Lesser Antilles on the northern edge of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean.
Guadeloupe is a fully integrated part of France and therefore part of the European Union.
Basse-Terre is the capital of the Caribbean island and the French overseas departments of Guadeloupe. It has 14,000 inhabitants and is located at the foot of the active volcano Soufriere in the southwest of the island of the same-named island part Basse-Terre.
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The two main islands of Guadeloupe are Basse-Terre and Grande-Terre, which are separated from each other only by a narrow strait. In close proximity to these two are likewise the inhabited islands of Marie-Galante and La Désirade which includes the two small uninhabited Petite Terre Islands and the small archipelago of the Îles des Saintes which includes the two inhabited and seven uninhabited islands.
A natural spectacle in Guadeloupe is the magnificent lagoon in Grand Cul-de-Sac Marin, which separates the two islands to the west. This 15,000 hectares of water surface is delimited from the sea by the longest coral reef of the Antilles and near the coast of a long mangrove belt, where thousands of seabirds reproduce.
If you ride towards the coast you reach the banana plantations, which extend along the rugged coastline. Large iguanas fondly rest on the rocks and watch the colored fish in the sea. There, in the 400-hectare natural park that bears his name, the oceanographer Cousteau filmed a part of the film "Le Monde du silence" ( "The World of Silence") . He has given this area, which is close to the Pigeon Island has an international dimension.
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