Soufrière is a town on the West Coast of Saint Lucia, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

[3] French colonizers built large estates in Soufrière, and their descendants still live in the area.

The British invaded St Lucia shortly afterwards, but the enslaved Africans and French deserters fought them in a guerrilla campaign until 1803 when they were defeated and St Lucia became a British colony.

Soufrière inhabitants have included the future Empress of France Joséphine de Beauharnais (who spent much of her childhood in the area),[citation needed] and George Charles (the first Premier of St Lucia).

When Queen Elizabeth II visited St Lucia in 1966, she landed at Soufrière rather than Castries.