Pain de sucre
The Îles des Saintes, also known as Les Saintes, is a group of small islands in the archipelago of Guadeloupe, an overseas department of France. It is part of the Canton of Trois-Rivières and is divided into two communes: Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Stéphane Batigne, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 16 metres
- Description: hill in France
- Also known as: “Le Pain de Sucre” and “Sugarloaf”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Les Saintes and Chameau.
Les Saintes
Photo: Les Saintes, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The archipelago of Les Saintes belongs to the Guadeloupe FWI. It consists of two main islands namely Terre de Haut et Terre de Bas, two small islets.
Chameau
Peak
Photo: Stéphane Batigne, CC BY 3.0.
Terre-de-Haut Island is the easternmost island in the Îles des Saintes, part of the archipelago of Guadeloupe. Like name of neighboring Terre-de-Bas Island, name Terre-de-Haut comes from the maritime vocabulary, which called the islands exposed to the "highland" winds and those protected from the wind, "lowlands".
Îlet à Cabrit
Islet
Photo: Stéphane Batigne, CC BY 3.0.
Îlet à Cabrit, officially French: îlet à Cabrit des Saintes, is an island in the Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe, the Lesser Antilles. It belongs to the commune of Terre-de-Haut.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Prés Cassin, Terre-de-Haut and Fond-du-Curé.
Prés Cassin, Terre-de-Haut
Neighborhood
Prés Cassin is a quartier of Terre-de-Haut Island, located in Îles des Saintes archipelago in the Caribbean. It is located in the southwestern part of the island.
Fond-du-Curé
Neighborhood
Photo: Patrice78500, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fond-du-Curé is a quartier of Terre-de-Haut Island, located in Les Saintes, Guadeloupe. It is located in the central part of the island. This is the main village of Terre-de-Haut Island.
La Savane
Neighborhood
La Savane is a quartier of Terre-de-Haut Island, located in Îles des Saintes archipelago in the Caribbean. It is a residential area located in the central part of the island.
Pain de sucre
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
15.86457° or 15° 51′ 53″ northLongitude
-61.59924° or 61° 35′ 57″ westElevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
777WVC72+R8OpenStreetMap ID
node 2973878922OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Pain de sucre” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Pain de Sucre”
- Dutch: “Pain de Sucre (kulle i Guadeloupe)”
- Dutch: “Pain de sucre”
- French: “Pain de sucre (Les Saintes)”
- French: “Pain de Sucre”
- Ladin: “Pain de sucre”
- Spanish: “Pain de Sucre”
- Swedish: “Pain de Sucre”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pain de Sucre and Plage du Pain de Sucre.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Pain de sucre”. Photo: Stéphane Batigne, CC BY 3.0.