Cascade de La coulisse, Waterfall in Trois-Rivières, Guadeloupe, France.
La Coulisse cascade is an 8-metre waterfall on the Petit Carbet river in Trois-Rivières, Basse-Terre. The river takes the name La Coulisse after meeting a ravine just upstream. The fall drops between dark, wet rock faces into a wide bathing pool at its foot, and stands beside an old mill in ruins.
The river du Petit Carbet takes the name La Coulisse after meeting a ravine shortly before the waterfall, and the cascade lies beside the ruins of an old mill. The 8-metre fall drops into a wide bathing pool at its foot, from which the river can be followed down to the Atlantic at Anse Duquery.
The river is called La Coulisse, likely after the natural slides it forms before reaching the Atlantic at Anse Duquery. Below the 8-metre fall, the wide pool serves as a bathing spot, and walkers can follow the riverbed downstream over these slides toward the sea.
The cascade sits beside the ruins of an old mill on the Petit Carbet river, reached from the Anse Duquery side; the final stretch follows the riverbed itself, so expect to wade. Wear shoes with good grip and carry water, as the rock is wet and slippery. From the pool at the foot of the fall you can continue downstream along the river's natural slides toward the sea.
The river is called La Coulisse because of the many natural slides it offers before reaching the Atlantic at Anse Duquery. Just before the sea, a second waterfall near a hiking path forms another wide bathing pool.
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