Port-Louis (Maurice)

See also: Port Louis

Called Port Louis in English, Port Louis is the Capitale of Maurice. Located in its own district, populated of 147.688 inhabitants to the census of 2003, the city is also a port open on the Indian Ocean and more the big city of the country.

Geography

Flora

At the beginning of the 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Bory of Saint-Vincent raised the presence of many Plante S in the Rue S of Port-Louis, in particular Achyranthes will aspera , Amaranthus blitum , Amaranthus spinosus , Andropogon contortum , Boerhavia diffused , Boerhavia erecta , Cassia foetida , Cleome pentaphylla , Cynosurus indicus , Datura metel , Heliotropium indicum or Parthenium hysterophorus , but also a Galéga, several panic grasses and five or six Species S of AIDS . In addition, and always according to the same author, the Mexican Argémone had been already naturalized in the island and the principal streets of the port were planted of black wood.

The Naturalist foot-note also the presence in Port-Louis of Cassia fistula as well as badamier planted S, the latter that and there in the streets and the courses

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