Bottom-Saint-Denis is a common French, located in the department of the Martinique and the area Martinique. Its inhabitants is called the denisiens.

Located close to the Peeled Mountain and on the sides to the Pitons to Carbet, Bottom-Saint-Denis is a village of the northern part of the Martinique. The observatory of Dull of the Juniors was built there in order to supervise the volcanic activity of the Peeled Montagne.

With 947 inhabitants, Bottom-Saint-Denis is the least populated commune island of the Martinique.

With the variation of the great transportation routes, to 27 km of Fort-de-France, Bottom-Saint-Denis, built at the 17th century on a watershed, was the required passage between Saint-Pierre and Extremely-Royal.

It has as neighbors:

• Saint-Pierre, and all his beaches at a few minutes of car;
• Dull-Red;
• Carbet, where the Russet-red House set of starting point towards the “Channel of Beauregard”;
• Fort de France, the capital of the island.

It is made up of 5 districts:

1. the Trench,
2. the Dull one of the Juniors, where is perched, since 1932, the vulcano-seismic Observatory, which “permanently auscultate” the Peeled Mountain, this volcano which destroyed Saint Pierre in 1902;
3. the Maillaud River,
4. the Other Edge driving district with the jump of the gendarme. Its ways lead to the capital by the road of the trace, road surrounded by greenery and nature.
5. the Mascret Fund: while taking the road which goes down there one the Channel of the Slaves crosses which come nonchalant from the Grande river carries on its road towards Carbet;
6. the Borough, center of the City, where the public services are gathered (school, station, dispensary, canteen,…) without forgetting the church and the presbytery. All painted of pink, they offer a contrast coloured vis-a-vis this greenery. Especially close to the church where is also in front of one surprising war memorial, with the smallest (that cuts some gets along) soldier of France.

With the Tourism, the Agriculture of the tropical type is the main activity of Bottom-Saint-Denis with plantations filled with birds (cicis, quiscales, hummingbirds…), where one finds in turn:

• of the exotic flowers: alpinia, anthuriums or arums, Hibiscus, jasmine-boiselles, balisiers, birds of paradise, porcelain pinks,
• of vegetables of the Antilles: Yam S, sweet potato, dachine or cabbages of China, cabbages hard and cabbage, let us giraumons, christophines,
• Fruit trees tropical: orange trees, mandarin trees, grapefruit trees, coconuts, guava trees, mango trees, medlar trees, quenetiers.

Monuments and curiosities

• Cascade of the Jump of the Gendarme
• Observatory of Dull of the Juniors

External bonds

• http://www.tourist-office.org/tourisme/France/outre-mer/martinique/fonds-saint-denis.htm