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Les Abymes
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Les Abymes is a commune in France, situated within the arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre. It serves as the capital for the cantons of Les Abymes-1, Les Abymes-2, Les Abymes-3, and Abymes-4. The municipality shares borders with Le Moule, Pointe-à-Pitre, Baie-Mahault, and Le Gosier. Its official postal codes are 97139 and 97142.
The area of Les Abymes is 81.25 square units. According to available data, the population is 57,960, comprising 23,311 males and 30,180 females. Another source lists the population as 53,514. The elevation is recorded as 26 meters in one dataset and 20 meters in another. The commune is twinned with Créteil and Boucherville.
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Place details
- Locality
- Les Abymes
- Region
- Guadeloupe
- Country
- France
- Population
- 53,514
- Timezone
- America/Guadeloupe
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Overseas region and department
- Guadeloupe
- Arrondissement
- Pointe-à-Pitre
- Canton
- Les Abymes-1 , 2 and 3
- Intercommunality
- CAP Excellence
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Éric Jalton
- Area
- 81.25 km (31.37 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 51,055
- Density
- 628.4/km (1,627/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00 ( AST )
- Insee postal code
- 97101 /97139 and 97142
- Elevation
- 0–120 m (0–394 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Les Abymes
- Demonym
- Abymiens
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Pointe-à-Pitre
- Population
- 51055
- Area
- 81.25
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Shares border with
- Sainte-Anne
- Official website
- www.abymes.fr
- Image
- Place principale aux Abymes.JPG
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- topic's main category
- Category:Les Abymes
- Commons category
- Les Abymes
- twinned administrative body
- Boucherville
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Les Abymes
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Les Abymes
- postal code
- 97142
- male population
- 23311
- female population
- 30180
- P8168
- Roberto Risso
- native label
- Les Abymes
- associated electoral district
- canton of Les Abymes-3
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-5-90-93-80-80
- fax number
- +33-5-90-93-80-83
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Encyclopedic overview
Les Abymes ( French pronunciation: [lez‿abim]; Antillean Creole: Zabim) is the most populous commune in the French overseas region and department of Guadeloupe, in the Lesser Antilles. It is located on the west side of the island of Grande-Terre, and is part of the largest metropolitan area of Guadeloupe, which also covers Pointe-à-Pitre.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Les Abymes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.