FACTS ABOUT SAINT LUCIA

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT SAINT LUCIA

1.                 Castries is the capital city of Saint Lucia.

2.                 The total population of Saint Lucia is 178,015.

3.                 The natives of Saint Lucia are called Saint Lucians.

4.                 The East Caribbean dollar (XCD) is official currency of Saint Lucia.

5.                 The official language is English.

6.                 Castries is the capital and largest city of Saint Lucia. The city’s design is in a grid pattern. Its sheltered harbour receives cargo vessels, ferry boats, and cruise ships.

 

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7.                 Saint Lucia has 158 kilometers (98 miles) of coastline.

8.                 Saint Lucia is adorned with pristine sugar sand beaches and exotic black sand beaches.

9.                 Mount Gimie is the tallest mountain on the island of Saint Lucia. The mountain’s peak reaches 950 meters (3,117 feet). It is of volcanic origin and is covered by lush tropical rainforest.

10.            The Pitons are two mountainous volcanic plugs, volcanic spires, located in Saint Lucia. The Gros Piton is 771 meters (2,530 feet) high, and the Petit Piton is 743 meters (2,438 feet) high; they are linked by the Piton Mitan ridge. The Pitons are UNESCO World Heritage Site 2,909 hectares (7,190 acres) in size.

11.            Tourism is vital to Saint Lucia’s economy. One of St Lucia’s main exports is bananas, but they also export cacao, vegetables and clothing.

12.            Marigot Bay, arguably the most beautiful bay on St Lucia, is best viewed from a vista point on the road between the main Caribbean coastal route and the bay itself. Lush hillsides plunge to the pretty palm-fringed beach, and yachts bob on the bay’s blue waters. The harbor is so deep and sheltered that the British fleet supposedly hid here from the French by covering their masts with palm fronds.

 

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13.            The national bird is the St Lucia Parrot, or Jacquot, which is native only to Saint Lucia.

14.            Saint Lucia was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse by the French, the island’s first European settlers, and the only country in the world named after a woman.

15.            St. Lucia’s nattional motto is “The Land, The People, The Light“.

16.            Despite a population of only 176,000, Saint Lucians have won two Nobel Prizes: Arthur Lewis (economics) and Derek Walcott (literature).

17.            The biggest St Lucian festival is the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival in May. Musicians come from all over the world to take part in this celebration.

18.            Cricket is massively popular in Saint Lucia.

19.            Saint Lucia is an anagram of “is nautical” or “is a lunatic”.

20.            The Diamond Falls are consistently described as one of the natural wonders of St Lucia. The Diamond Falls offers three popular attractions: well-conceived gardens, a beautiful waterfall colored by mineral deposits, and healing mineral hot spring baths originally built for the troops of King Louis the XVI of France.

 

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21.            Saint Lucia Exports: bananas, coconuts, vegetables, citrus, root crops and cocoa.

22.            Saint Lucia Imports: food, manufactured goods, machinery and transportation equipment, chemicals and fuels.

23.            The internet country code for Saint Lucia is .lc.