Barbados

the State Barbados is had on the island with the same name in Atlantic to the east from a chain of Lesser Antilles. The head of the state is the queen the Great Britain, presented by the governor-general. The square - 430  sq. km. The population - 260 thousand persons. Nearby 90 % of the population of the country Negroes and mulattos compound. Among the white offsprings of the English colonists deposit. An official language - English. Capital - Bridgetown (120 thousand people).

Before emersion of Spaniards the island was occupied by American Indian nations of Arawaks and karibov. In 1625 Barbados has been captureed by the Englishmen who have based here sugar and tobacco fields on whom the Negroes-slaves delivered from Africa worked. In 1966 independence of Barbados has been intoned.

Barbados - the green tropical island combined by coral chalkstones. A landform flat with terraces gradually lifted to the centre. Coast - the dazzling rose-white beaches of the most thin coral sand bordered with high palm trees. The climate of Barbados is considered one of the most healthy in West Indies. Average temperature of September (the warmest month) 27  °C, February (most cool) 25  °C.

During a dry season (December-June) tropical heat is moderated by northeast trade winds from Atlantic, the island is constantly scavenged by breezes.

The agriculture Basis is compounded by sugarcane effecting. Numerous tropical woods of Barbados have been ruined just as a result of a sugar fever. The mongooses, started to eat poultry and even small cattle became the present distress for the country delivered in XIX century for destruction of rats.

Annually more 300  thousand tourists attends island, the first class hotels and the international airport here are builted.