Babonneau

Download coordinates as: Babonneau is one of the regions of the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia.

There are extensive rain forests in the region, which is an important source of fresh water for Saint Lucia.

The people of Babonneau are mainly of African descent, descendants of slaves brought by the French and British to Saint Lucia in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

The French explorer Joseph Gaspard Tascher de la Pagerie settled in Babonneau in 1763.

The name comes from either a family with that last name or the French word barre-bonne-eau meaning “the ridge where there is good water” in English.