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Dominica Overview

  • LOCATION: a hyphen between Martinique and Guadeloupe.
  • SURFACE AREA: 790 km² - 50 km long and 25 km wide.
  • HIGHEST POINT: Morne Diablotin, 1447 metres.
  • STATUS: Independent state for over twenty years and a member of the Commonwealth.
  • POPULATION: At the time of the 2004 census, the population of Dominica was 70,000. The island is mostly inhabited by Afro-West Indians and 3000 Caribbean Indians, the sole survivors in the entire world. They live in a territory that was granted to them in 1903 by the Queen of England.
  • CAPITAL: Roseau, named by the French in colonial times;
  • LANGUAGES: English and Creole. This dialect is relatively close to the Creole spoken in the French islands. But the Dominicans think that the French are the ones that have the dialect!

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Météo Dominica

03 Septembre 2010 Température : 32 °C
Hygrométrie : 83 % Vent : 13 km/h NE
04 Septembre 2010 Température : 32 °C
Hygrométrie : 82 % Vent : 11 km/h ENE
05 Septembre 2010 Température : 31 °C
Hygrométrie : 79 % Vent : 11 km/h ENE
06 Septembre 2010 Température : 31 °C
Hygrométrie : 79 % Vent : 27 km/h NE
07 Septembre 2010 Température : 31 °C
Hygrométrie : 80 % Vent : 14 km/h ESE

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Before 1493 > The island was inhabited by the Arawak Indians, then by the Caribbean. 1493 One Sunday, Christopher Columbus sailed along the coast of the island, and called it Sunday (in Spanish: Domingo, where we get[...]

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