Grenada

the State Grenada is had on the island with the same name and on small islands Southern Grenadines (island Karriaku, etc.) in bunch of Lesser Antilles in Caribbean sea. The head of the state is the queen of the Great Britain presented by the governor-general. A population - 110 thousand persons (almost 90 % lives on island Grenada). The Official language - English. Capital - Saint George's.

Islands have been open by Columbus in 1498. With 1650 for 1762 Grenada Frenchmen possessed. The trace of their sovereignty was saved in tongue existence patua - the French dialect on which speak now only in villages. In 1762 of island Englishmen, and two hundred years later, in 1974 have taken possession, Grenada has intoned independence. Nowadays the population bulk is compounded by Negroes (53 %) and mulattos (42 %). The white population consists in the core of offsprings of Englishmen and Frenchmen. There is a small bunch of Indians karibov.

Grenada - island of a vulcanic parentage. Its neritic east part vile, and western mountainous (the maximum altitude of vulcanic apexes attains 840 . A climate tropical, passatnyj with the rainy season from May till October. Deposits - from above 1500  mm a year. The hurricanes which are carried by over island from July till October are frequent enough. Were particulate saved vlazhnotropicheskie ever-green forests with fine woods of arbours.

The Basic oof of Grenada - fertile volcanic ash soils. Grenada often name the country of spices as it takes the second place in the world on nutmeg effecting. Cocoa, citrous, a clove tree and vanilla are cultivated also. Capital of the country and its main port Saint George's (40  thousand inhabitants) is on the bank of a picturesque fake. The main tourist area and the largest hotels of the country are had to the south from capital, at gulf grand á¡ßÑ.