Lesser Antilles
Saint Lucia
Soufrière District

Qualibou

Qualibou, also known as the Volcanic Center, is a 3.5 × 5 km-wide caldera on the island of that formed between 32,000 and 39,000 years ago.
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Photo: Trent Foley, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pitons and St. Lucia Botanical Gardens.

Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The are two mountainous volcanic plugs, volcanic spires, located in . Petit Piton is 743 m high and Gros Piton is 798.25 m high; they are linked by the Piton Mitan ridge.

Garden
Photo: XeresNelro, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as the Diamond Botanical Gardens, is home of the Diamond Waterfall and the oldest botanical gardens on the island of St.

is a geothermal field on the island of . It is located to the southwest in the district of , a name given by the French meaning 'sulphur mine', because of the proximity of the town to the site.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Soufriere and Saltibus.

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Soufrière is a town on the West Coast of , in the eastern . The town and the surrounding district has a population of 7,935. It was colonized by the French and was the original capital of the island.

Hamlet
is located on southwestern side of the Island of . It belongs to one of two of the 11 quarters, or sections of the island, which were sometimes called "districts", which is no longer under control of the British colonial government as of 1979 AD.

Qualibou

Latitude
13.8374° or 13° 50′ 15″ north
Longitude
-61.0457° or 61° 2′ 45″ west
Elevation
2,549 feet (777 metres)
Open location code
775WRXP3+XP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1224753164
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Wiki­data ID
Q3412754
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Satellite Map

Discover Qualibou from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Qualibou” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كواليبو”
  • Czech: “Qualibou”
  • Czech: “Soufrière Volcanic Center”
  • Dutch: “Qualibou”
  • French: “Qualibou”
  • French: “Soufrière de Sainte-Lucie”
  • German: “Qualibou”
  • Hebrew: “קואליבו”
  • Ladin: “Qualibou”
  • Latin: “Qualibou”
  • Malayalam: “ക്വാളിബോവു”
  • Persian: “کوالیبو”
  • Slovak: “Qualibou”
  • Swedish: “Qualibou”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Sulphur Springs and Rabot.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Sulphur Springs Park and Rabot.

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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 “Qualibou”. Photo: Trent Foley, CC BY-SA 2.0.