Babonneau is one of the regions of the Caribbean

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Saint Lucia Saint Lucia is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. Part of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines), Saint Vincent ...

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

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. 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.

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

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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 city, 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 Castries Quarter, district has a population of just under ...

. 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 OM (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 ...

(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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Government

Region and communities within Babonneau

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