St. George’s, Grenada
St. George’s is the capital of Grenada. The town is surrounded by a hillside of an old volcano crater and is on a horseshoe-shaped harbour. Grenada achieved independence from Britain in 1974. The island participated as planned in the hosting of the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
About St. George’s, Grenada in brief
St. George’s is the capital of Grenada. The town is surrounded by a hillside of an old volcano crater and is on a horseshoe-shaped harbour. It has a moderate tropical climate that ensures the success of spice production. Nutmegs are a key crop, followed by spices such as cocoa, mace, cloves, vanilla, cinnamon and ginger. Grenada achieved independence from Britain in 1974. The island participated as planned in the hosting of the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The main exports are cocoa bean, nutmeg, and mace spice. The average temperature is about 30 °C. There are two seasons: the ‘dry’ season is from January to April, with only March truly qualifying as a dry season month. The ‘rainy’ season lasts for the rest of the year, with no more than 5 minutes of rain in the last 5 minutes or so of the dry period.
The parish in which Sen Jòj is located, is the home of St. George’s University School of Medicine and Maurice Bishop International Airport. St. George’s was founded by the French in 1650 when the island was colonised by Jacques Dyel du Parquet, the governor of Martinique. The French began their colonisation with a series of skirmishes that virtually exterminated the native Carib population. In 1666, a wooden fortification was constructed by French colonists on a promontory overlooking Grenada’s natural harbour and named Fort Royale. In 1705, work started on a new star fort on the same site, with four stone-built bastions, to the design of Jean de Giou de Caylus, the Chief Engineer of the \”Islands of America\” the French West Indies.
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