Le Lamentin | |
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 Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport in Le Lamentin | |
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Location of Le Lamentin  | |
| Coordinates:14°36′N61°00′W / 14.60°N 61.00°W /14.60; -61.00 | |
| Country | France |
| Overseas region and department | Martinique |
| Arrondissement | Fort-de-France |
| Intercommunality | CA Centre de la Martinique |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | David Zobda[1] |
Area 1 | 62.32 km2 (24.06 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 39,346 |
| • Density | 630/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Lamentinois.e |
| Time zone | UTC−04:00 (AST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 97213 /97232 |
| Elevation | −10–363 m (−33–1,191 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Le Lamentin (French pronunciation:[ləlamɑ̃tɛ̃];Martinican Creole:Lanmanten;lit. 'The Manatee') is a city and town, located in theFrench overseas department and region ofMartinique. With its area of 62.32 km2, it is the town with the largest area in Martinique. Le Lamentin, with close to 40,000 inhabitants, is the second most populated town of Martinique, afterFort-de-France. It is also the first industrial town and the heart of the island's economy.
The town, incorporated in the region of Fort-de-France, is located in the center of theisland of Martinique. Originally a giantswamp land and mangrove region, it is now ariparian town, located by the sea in the Bay of Fort-de-France and crossed by the island's longest river (36 km): theLézarde.
Le Lamentin has atropical monsoon climate (Köppen climate classificationAm). The average annual temperature in Le Lamentin is 27.0 °C (80.6 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,056.6 mm (80.97 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 28.1 °C (82.6 °F), and lowest in February, at around 25.6 °C (78.1 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Le Lamentin was 35.4 °C (95.7 °F) on 7 October 2012; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 14.1 °C (57.4 °F) on 25 December 1964.
| Town | Sunshine (hours/yr) | Rain (mm/yr) | Snow (days/yr) | Storm (days/yr) | Fog (days/yr) |
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| National average | 1,973 | 770 | 14 | 22 | 40 |
| Le Lamentin | 2,317.9 | 1,915.6 | 0 | 26.7 | 0.9[4] |
| Paris | 1,661 | 637 | 12 | 18 | 10 |
| Nice | 2,724 | 767 | 1 | 29 | 1 |
| Strasbourg | 1,693 | 665 | 29 | 29 | 56 |
| Brest | 1,605 | 1,211 | 7 | 12 | 75 |
| Climate data for Le Lamentin (1991–2020 averages, extremes 1953–present) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 32.1 (89.8) | 32.9 (91.2) | 34.4 (93.9) | 34.1 (93.4) | 33.7 (92.7) | 33.7 (92.7) | 32.8 (91.0) | 34.2 (93.6) | 35.2 (95.4) | 35.4 (95.7) | 34.1 (93.4) | 32.1 (89.8) | 35.4 (95.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 29.0 (84.2) | 29.1 (84.4) | 29.6 (85.3) | 30.3 (86.5) | 30.9 (87.6) | 30.9 (87.6) | 30.9 (87.6) | 31.4 (88.5) | 31.7 (89.1) | 31.4 (88.5) | 30.5 (86.9) | 29.6 (85.3) | 30.4 (86.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 25.7 (78.3) | 25.6 (78.1) | 26.0 (78.8) | 26.7 (80.1) | 27.6 (81.7) | 28.0 (82.4) | 27.9 (82.2) | 28.1 (82.6) | 27.9 (82.2) | 27.6 (81.7) | 27.0 (80.6) | 26.2 (79.2) | 27.0 (80.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22.3 (72.1) | 22.1 (71.8) | 22.4 (72.3) | 23.1 (73.6) | 24.3 (75.7) | 25.0 (77.0) | 25.0 (77.0) | 24.7 (76.5) | 24.1 (75.4) | 23.8 (74.8) | 23.5 (74.3) | 22.8 (73.0) | 23.6 (74.5) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 14.2 (57.6) | 14.6 (58.3) | 16.1 (61.0) | 16.6 (61.9) | 18.7 (65.7) | 20.2 (68.4) | 20.1 (68.2) | 19.9 (67.8) | 19.0 (66.2) | 19.1 (66.4) | 17.2 (63.0) | 14.1 (57.4) | 14.1 (57.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 115.2 (4.54) | 81.6 (3.21) | 82.3 (3.24) | 123.0 (4.84) | 137.6 (5.42) | 166.6 (6.56) | 198.1 (7.80) | 257.3 (10.13) | 219.3 (8.63) | 256.7 (10.11) | 260.8 (10.27) | 158.1 (6.22) | 2,056.6 (80.97) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 1.0 mm) | 18.6 | 14.9 | 13.2 | 13.4 | 13.5 | 17.6 | 20.5 | 20.3 | 17.9 | 19.3 | 19.9 | 19.0 | 208.1 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 202.0 | 201.5 | 229.1 | 217.5 | 216.8 | 195.1 | 215.7 | 223.4 | 207.1 | 204.9 | 182.8 | 193.3 | 2,489.2 |
| Source: Meteo France[5][6][7] | |||||||||||||
This low region of Martinique, with itsmangroves and flooded lands, keeps in its name the memory of the pacificmanatees, hunted for their meat by the island's first inhabitants. The river La Lézarde was frequently visited by Manatees, now extinct in theLesser Antilles. The legend says that, once upon a time, a manatee was found dead on the river banks and since then, the town has adopted the name Le Lamentin. Nowadays, a symbolic statue of a manatee rests in front of city hall.
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1961 | 16,211 | — |
| 1967 | 18,553 | +2.27% |
| 1974 | 23,145 | +3.21% |
| 1982 | 26,367 | +1.64% |
| 1990 | 30,028 | +1.64% |
| 1999 | 35,460 | +1.86% |
| 2007 | 39,442 | +1.34% |
| 2012 | 39,700 | +0.13% |
| 2017 | 39,809 | +0.05% |
| Source: SPLAF[8] and INSEE (1967–2017)[9] | ||
Le Lamentin is Martinique's economical and industrial center. Specialized mainly in tertiary industries, it is home to five industrial zones and two joint development zones (La Lézarde, La Jambette, Les Mangles Acajou, Les hauts de Californie, Place d'Armes, Lareinty and Manhity), an oil refinery named La Sara and the two largest shopping centers of the island (La Galleria and Place d'Armes). On the administrative aspect, Le Lamentin is home to large groups such as the Caisse Générale de Sécurité Sociale, the Caisse d'Allocations Familiales and the Chambers of Agriculture. It also houses the headquarters of various groups such as Société Martiniquaise des Eaux (the island's water company) and banks such as Crédit Agricole. The town of Le Lamentin is also home to the island's only international airport,Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, named after local author and politicianAimé Césaire. The airport had, in 2019, a total passenger traffic of 2,050,030 people[10] and represents the 12th busiest airport in the Caribbean, just behind Guadeloupe and Curaçao.
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