Coulibistrie is a village on the west coast of
Dominica
Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. It is part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of t ...
, in the northwest corner of
Saint Joseph Parish. It is between the villages of
Colihaut
Colihaut is a coastal village in northern Dominica within Saint Peter Parish midway between the towns of Roseau and Portsmouth. It has a population of 773 people.Commonwealth of Dominica, ''Population and Housing Census — 2001''. Roseau, Domin ...
to the north and
Morne Rachette
Morne Rachette or Morne Raquette is a village on the west coast of Dominica, in the northwest corner of Saint Joseph Parish. It is located on the slopes of Morne Jalousie, above Coulibistrie to its immediate north and Batalie Bay. The villag ...
to the south. It extends inland from the coast within a deep valley, along both banks of the
Coulibistrie River. The village is primarily residential with few businesses. Many of the houses are built directly atop or adjoining the numerous large boulders that litter the valley along its base.
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Coulibistrie is part of the
Salisbury
Salisbury ( , ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers River Avon, Hampshire, Avon, River Nadder, Nadder and River Bourne, Wi ...
constituency in the
Dominica House of Assembly, in which it is represented by
Hector John (
UWP)
as of the 2009 general election. The village is locally governed by the Coulibistrie/Morne Rachette village council.
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The Coulibistrie Roman Catholic Church, a historic stone building with stained-glass windows, is located where the main road in Coulibistrie joins the coastal road.
The village feast of
Saint Anne
According to apocrypha, as well as Christianity, Christian and Islamic tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's Gosp ...
usually takes place in July.
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Populated places in Dominica
Saint Joseph Parish, Dominica
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