Morne Trois Pitons National Park
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How it came to be
In the southern highlands of Dominica, a volcanic island in the Lesser Antilles, a national park surrounds Morne Trois Pitons, a volcano 1,342 metres high whose name means mountain of three peaks. The park covers 6,857 hectares, about 9% of the country, and holds five volcanic centres, 50 fumaroles, hot springs and three freshwater lakes.
The Grand Soufrière, or Valley of Desolation, is full of coloured streams and bubbling mud ponds, and beyond it lies the Boiling Lake, one of the largest of its kind in the world. At least five forest types grow here, one of the few largely intact forests left in the Caribbean islands. The imperial parrot, endemic to Dominica and shown on its flag, lives here.
Forest protection was first proposed in the 1950s, and in July 1975 the area became Dominica's first national park. Hurricane David in 1979 and Hurricane Allen in 1980 badly damaged the forest. A cable car through the park was not approved, and the park was inscribed in 1997.
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