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Le Morne-Rouge
Le Morne-Rouge (French pronunciation: [lə mɔʁn ʁuʒ]; Martinican Creole: Mònwouj) is a commune and town in the French overseas department and island of Martinique. GeographyLe Morne-Rouge is the wettest town of Martinique, It is situated on a plateau between Mount Pelée and the massive of the Carbet Mountains. ClimateLe Morne-Rouge has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The average annual temperature in Le Morne-Rouge is 24.3 °C (75.7 °F). The average annual rainfall is 4,683.0 mm (184.37 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.5 °C (77.9 °F), and lowest in February, at around 22.7 °C (72.9 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Le Morne-Rouge was 33.1 °C (91.6 °F) on 13 September 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 12.1 °C (53.8 °F) in December 2022.
HistoryIn 1763, Acadians who had been expelled from modern-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick during le Grand Dérangement landed at Le Morne-Rouge.[4] In 1765, their colony, called Champflore, had roughly 400 residents, 100 of them Acadians who had previously been exiled to New York, the remainder from Germany and Alsace.[5] Seventy-eight Acadians remained in 1767, and most or all had left Martinique for Quebec or Louisiana by 1800.[5] The commune was founded in 1888, following the division of Saint-Pierre. Population
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