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Grenada,
Carriacou and Petit Martinique
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Grenada is an island nation in the southeastern Caribbean
Sea including the southern Grenadines. Grenada is located north
of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela, and south of Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines. The national bird of Grenada is the critically
endangered Grenada Dove. |
| Popularly known as 'The Spice Isle' because of an abundance
of locally grown spices and a culture of music, dance and food
built into the image of 'spice of life', Grenada is also a well-known
tourist destination. |
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The island Grenada itself is the
largest island; smaller Grenadines are Carriacou, Petit Martinique,
Ronde Island, Caille Island, Diamond Island, Large Island, Saline
Island and Frigate Island. Most of the population lives on Grenada
itself, and major towns there include the capital, St. George’s,
Grenville and Gouyave. The largest settlement on the other islands
is Hillsborough on Carriacou.
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The islands are of volcanic origin with extremely rich soil.
Grenada’s interior is very mountainous with Mount St.
Catherine being the highest at 2,756 feet (840 m). Several
small rivers with beautiful waterfalls flow into the sea from
these mountains.
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The climate is tropical: hot and humid in the rainy season
and cooled by the trade winds in the dry season. Grenada,
being on the southern edge of the hurricane belt, has suffered
only three hurricanes in fifty years. Hurricane Janet passed
over Grenada on 23 September 1955 with winds of 115 mph, causing
severe damage.
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| The most recent storms to hit have
been Hurricane Ivan on September 7, 2004 causing severe damage
and thirty-nine deaths and Hurricane Emily on July 14, 2005,
causing serious damage in Carriacou and in the north of Grenada
which had been relatively lightly affected by hurricane Ivan. |
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Information sourced from www.wikipedia.org
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