Saint Lucia
Soufrière District
Town

Soufriere

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.
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  • Type: Town with 2,920 residents
  • Description: town in Saint Lucia
  • Also known as: “Soufrière”, “Soufriere Town”, and “Soufrière, Saint Lucia”

Places of Interest

Highlights include St. Lucia Botanical Gardens and Qualibou.

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.

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

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

Soufriere

Latitude
13.8541° or 13° 51′ 15″ north
Longitude
-61.0586° or 61° 3′ 31″ west
Population
2,920
Elevation
39 feet (12 metres)
Open location code
775WVW3R+JH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6325423933
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3576442
Wiki­data ID
Q493030
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Soufriere” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سوفريير”
  • Asturian: “Soufrière”
  • Bengali: “সোফ্রিরে”
  • Cebuano: “Soufrière (kapital sa baranggay sa Saint Lucia, Soufrière)”
  • Cebuano: “Soufrière”
  • Chinese: “蘇弗里耶爾”
  • Danish: “Soufriere”
  • Dutch: “Soufrière”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سوفريير”
  • Finnish: “Soufrière”
  • French: “Soufrière”
  • German: “Soufrière”
  • Greek: “Σουφριέρ”
  • Gujarati: “સૌફ્રીરે”
  • Hebrew: “סופרייר”
  • Hindi: “सुफ्रिएर”
  • Indonesian: “Soufrière”
  • Italian: “Soufrière”
  • Japanese: “スフリエール”
  • Japanese: “スフレ”
  • Kannada: “ಸೌಫೈರೆ”
  • Korean: “수프리에르”
  • Latvian: “Sufriēra”
  • Lithuanian: “Sufrieras”
  • Malay: “Soufriere”
  • Marathi: “सौफ्रीरे”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Soufrière”
  • Persian: “سوفریر”
  • Persian: “سوفریه ره”
  • Polish: “Soufrière”
  • Portuguese: “Soufriere”
  • Russian: “Суфриер”
  • Sinhala: “සොෆ්රයරේ”
  • Spanish: “Soufriere”
  • Spanish: “Soufrière”
  • Swedish: “Soufrière (kvartershuvudort i Saint Lucia, Soufrière)”
  • Swedish: “Soufrière, Saint Lucia”
  • Swedish: “Soufriere”
  • Tamil: “சௌபிரியர்”
  • Telugu: “సోఫ్రియర్”
  • Thai: “โซเฟรียร์”
  • Turkish: “Soufrière”
  • Ukrainian: “Суфріер”
  • Urdu: “سووفرییری”
  • Vietnamese: “Soufrière”

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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 “Soufriere”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.