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.
Le Morne-Rouge is the wettest town of Martinique, It is situated on a plateau between Mount Pelée and the massive of the Carbet Mountains.
The average annual rainfall is 4,683.0 mm (184.37 in) with November as the wettest month.
[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.