River-Pilot

See also: River (homonymy)

Rivière Controls is a Commune Frenchwoman, located in the department of Martinique and the area Martinique. Its inhabitants is called Pilotins.

Commune of the southernmost littoral, it is located remotely main axes of communications this since the construction of the bridge at the top of the mangrove known as of the " hole with the diable" who allows to reach the beaches of the south without crossing the borough. Before arriving in the common neighbor of the sailor, a peaceful beach his museum its military barracks discrete, the well arranged site (restaurant, shower, WC) of the handle fig tree offers a sight inprenable on the rock of diamond and the " ram couchée". It is said that per clear night one can distinguish the lights there from the island of St Lucia.

History

The common one was named in the honor of the “Pilot” Indian. Pilot, favorable to French of the time of the division of the island between colonists and natives (XVII). River-pilot always had a tradition of independence and refuge for the maroon rebels and negros (escaped slaves). The rising of September 1870 started from River-Pilot.

Policy

Chief of the independence party MIM, the common one had as mayor Alfred Marie-Jeanne of 1972 to 2000 before this last does not become appointed then president of the District council. Local and rare political monument politicking practitioner in any circumstance a rural Creole conferring a charisma to him completes.

Monuments and curiosities

Distilling Mauny: " RHUM" of the inhabitants of Martinique
Ecomusée of Martinique: The collections evoke the history of the island since Amerindian prehistory at the beginning of the colonial era, of the slave period to the economy of the plantation. Old distilling development. Topics of the collections: Prehistory; Sciences and Technology; Agro-alimentary.
Church of the commune: oldest of the island.

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