Basse-Terre
Basse-Terre is the western island of the pair of islands that make up the principal land mass of Guadeloupe. It is full of waterfalls, rivers and streams, thermal springs, beaches of golden or black sand and a tropical rain forest covering its mountain range.Photo: Patrice78500, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Filo gèn', CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Guadeloupe National Park
Photo: Filo gèn', CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guadeloupe National Park is a national park in Guadeloupe, an overseas territory of France.
Notable Places in the Area
Localities in the Area
Basse-Terre
- Type: Island
- Description: island in Guadeloupe, France
- Categories: mountain range, locality and landform
- Location: Arrondissement de la Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
16.1596° or 16° 9' 35" northLongitude
-61.6797° or 61° 40' 47" westPopulation
186,000Elevation
439 metres (1,440 feet)Open Location Code
778W585C+R4OpenStreetMap ID
node 3178316363OpenStreetMap Feature
place=islandGeoNames ID
3579733Wikidata ID
Q153822Basse-Terre Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arpitan: Bâssa-Tèrra
- Belarusian: Бас-Тэрэ
- Catalan: Illa de Basse-Terre
- Cebuano: Basse-Terre
- Chinese: 巴斯特尔
- Chinese: 巴斯特尔岛
- Danish: Basse-Terre
- Dutch: Basse-Terre (eiland)
- Dutch: Basse-Terre
- Egyptian Arabic: باس تير
- Egyptian Arabic: باس تير ايسلاند
- English: Basse-Terre Island
- Esperanto: Basse-Terre
- Finnish: Basse-Terre
- French: Basse-Terre
- Galician: Illa de Basse-Terre
- Georgian: ბას-ტერი
- German: Basse-Terre
- Greek: Μπας-Τερ
- Hebrew: באס-טר
- Hebrew: באסה טר
- Ido: Basse-Terre
- Indonesian: Basse-Terre
- Italian: Basse-Terre
- Japanese: バステール
- Japanese: バス・テール島
- Korean: 바스테르
- Korean: 바스테르 섬
- Korean: 바스테르섬
- Ladin: Basse-Terre Island
- Lithuanian: Bas Teras
- Norwegian: Basse-Terre-øya
- Norwegian Bokmål: Basse-Terre-øya
- Polish: Basse-Terre
- Portuguese: Ilha de Basse-Terre
- Russian: Бас-Тер
- Serbian: Бас-Тер
- Slovak: Basse-Terre
- Spanish: Isla de Basse-Terre
- Swedish: Basse-Terre
- Ukrainian: Бас-Тер
- Vietnamese: Basse-Terre
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Basse-Terre. Photo: Filo gèn', CC BY-SA 4.0.