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The Martinique Handball Championship, organized by the Martinique Handball League, [115] concludes with the Poule des As (play-off) which determines the Martinique champion in the women's and men's categories. The Poule des As is a very popular event in Martinique, the pavilions are filled for the finals held at the Palais des Sports de Lamentin.
Martinique also elects 4 seats to the French National Assembly, the last elections were held in June 2007.The Union for a Popular Movement elected 1 deputy (Alfred Almont), the Socialist Party elected 1 (Louis-Joseph Manscour), the nationalist Martinican Independence Movement elected 1 (Alfred Marie-Jeanne), and the Martinican Progressive Party also elected 1 (Serge Letchimy, mayor of Fort de ...
The "Baie de Génipa" site, in the south-eastern end of the bay of Fort-de-France, is home to 93 species of birds. It represents 65% of the mangroves in Martinique with 153 recorded plant species. The Regional Nature Park is planning to have the bay classified as a regional nature reserve. [28] In the two areas mentioned above, the substrate is ...
The Law on Departmentalization is a French law adopted in 1946 that established the "four vieilles colonies" (old colonies) of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, and French Guiana as overseas departments of France. The law was unanimously adopted following a proposal by Aimé Césaire, the youngest deputy from Overseas France. It symbolically ...
The flag of Martinique consists of a red triangle at the hoist, with two horizontal bands, the upper green and the lower black. It was adopted on 2 February 2023, which has a very strong ties to Africa. The flag of France, its parent country, is also flown with official standing due to Martinique's status as a French overseas department and region.
Saint-Pierre was founded in 1635 by Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc, a French trader and adventurer, as the first permanent French colony on the island of Martinique. Map of Saint-Pierre 1814. The Great Hurricane of 1780 produced a storm-surge of 8 metres (25 ft) which "inundated the city, destroying all houses" and killed 9,000 people. [3]
The "Island of flowers ", as Martinique is called, is a volcanic island with rather low mountains which form steep cliffs along the coasts. It can be divided into three natural zones: a mountainous region in the north, with its two highest points at Mount Pelée (an active volcano, 4,428 ft.) and the Pitons du Carbet (3,960 ft.); the Lamentin Plain in the center; and a hilly region in the ...
Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc landing in Martinique in 1635. In 1635, after 133 years of Spanish rule, Spain was forced to cede Martinica to the French under Cardinal Richelieu who created the Compagnie des Îles de l'Amérique (Company of the Isles of America, the successor to the Compagnie de Saint-Christophe).