Le Morne-Rouge

Coat of arms | | Location of the commune (in red) within Martinique | | Location of Le Morne-Rouge | | Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}14°46′25″N 61°08′05″W / 14.7736°N 61.1347°W / 14.7736; -61.1347 | | France | | Martinique | | Saint-Pierre | | CA Pays Nord Martinique | | Jenny Dulys-Petit | | 37.64 km2 (14.53 sq mi) | | 4,388 | | 116.6/km2 (301.9/sq mi) | | Péléen·ne | | UTC−04:00 (AST) | | 97218 /97260 | | 120–923 m (394–3,028 ft) | | 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |

Le Morne-Rouge (.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}French pronunciation: [lə mɔʁn ʁuʒ]; Martinican Creole: Mònwouj) is a commune and town in the French overseas department and island of Martinique.

Le Morne-Rouge is the wettest town of Martinique, It is situated on a plateau between Mount Pelée and the massive of the Carbet Mountains.

Le Morne-Rouge has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen climate classification Af). The average annual temperature in Le Morne-Rouge is 24.3 °C (75.7 °F). The average annual rainfall is 4,683.0 mm (184.37 in) with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.5 °C (77.9 °F), and lowest in February, at around 22.7 °C (72.9 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Le Morne-Rouge was 33.1 °C (91.6 °F) on 13 September 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was 12.1 °C (53.8 °F) in December 2022.

In 1763, Acadians who had been expelled from modern-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick during le Grand Dérangement landed at Le Morne-Rouge. In 1765, their colony, called Champflore, had roughly 400 residents, 100 of them Acadians who had previously been exiled to New York, the remainder from Germany and Alsace. Seventy-eight Acadians remained in 1767, and most or all had left Martinique for Quebec or Louisiana by 1800.

The commune was founded in 1888, following the division of Saint-Pierre.

• Communes of Martinique

• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)