Mount Tabac, Mountain in Soufrière Quarter, Saint Lucia.
Mount Tabac is a summit in the Soufrière Quarter of Saint Lucia, on the island's volcanic interior about 14 km south of Castries. Sources give its elevation as 720 m (French Wikipedia) or 551 m (Cebuano Wikipedia). Its slopes are wooded, and the land around it is classed as forest, with the sea lying to the east.
Mount Tabac lies in the Soufrière Quarter, about 14 km south of Castries, on the island of Saint Lucia. Its documented height is 551 m in one source and 720 m in another, a discrepancy that reflects differing survey figures rather than any change on the ground. The surrounding land is wooded hillside, with the sea as the nearest low ground to the east.
The name Mount Tabac, with its French form Mont Tabac, comes from the French word for tobacco, a crop tied to Saint Lucia's colonial plantation economy. The mountain stands in the Soufrière Quarter, about 14 km south of Castries, and the surrounding slopes are wooded, with savanna-type climate and roughly 22 °C average temperatures.
The mountain lies southwest of Castries near Anse Mamin and is best explored from its base. The area is most easily accessed by using the coastal routes that run through the region's plantations.
Mount Tabac lies about 14 km south of Castries, the capital, and about 14.4 km north of the nearest large city in source 2's reckoning. Source 2 places it on Saint Lucia Island in the Soufrière area, where the surrounding terrain is hilly and wooded and the coast lies to the east.
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