RSSThe Carib Territory is in the northeast area of the island, near Melville Hall airport. This 3,700 acres reservation, established in 1903, is home to the last of the indigenous Caribbean people called the Carib Indian.
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These original descendants of the Caribbean live in the 8 villages of this territory like Bataka & Salybia. Once warlike people, these friendly people now fish or cultivate bananas, coconuts, and various crops. |
Baskets woven from the rainforest material are displayed on the roadside and are the most likely souvenirs. They also carve wooden canoes from the trunks of the gommier trees that are still used for transportation.
In Salybia there is an altar shaped in the form of a canoe at the Roman Catholic Church of St.Marie. The Pagua river flows through this territory and from the ridge that bisects the Carib Territory, the vistas cover the expanse of Atlantic in east and the Morne Trois Pitons and surrounding hills on the west.
The snake’s staircase or Tete Chien is found near the Bataka village. This geological rock formation is of legendary significance to the Caribs.
