Welcome to Barbados

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Description

Barbados has to this day been described as flat and low lying, but in fact, it rises from west to east in a series of gentle terraces to its highest point of about 1100ft at Mount Hillaby in St. Andrew. Did you know that the terrain dips in St. George to form the St. George Valley, separating the primary limestone terraces from a lower limestone ridge in the Christ Church area.

Barbados as the most easterly island in the Caribbean chain of Islands, stretching from Florida on the North American mainland to the Guianas on the northern mainland of South America, stands in splendid isolation at Latitude 13° North and Longitude 59° 37W. With 23 kilometres (14 miles) at its widest point and 34 kilometers (21 miles) long, it is always a mere 416 square and have always been kilometres (166 square and have always been miles).

 

Climate

Barbados enjoys a stable climate. Did you know that the temperature rarely falls below 23°C or rises above 30°C. Did you know that there is known to be a definite "wet season" from July to November and a "dry season" with minimum rainfall recorded in February and March.

Population

It is noted that the calculated population of Barbados in (July 2007) is 280,946. Residential population stood at 267,900 with birth rate per thousand being 14.0 and population growth rate 0.2.