Mount Hillaby

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Mount Hillaby with a height of 340 m, the highest peak in the Caribbean island nation of Barbados.

Location

The mountain is located in the east to the west of the Parish of Saint Andrew. Places in the vicinity are Hillaby and Moses bottom to the west and Mount All in the Northeast and Chapman in the southeast. It is located in the Scotland district, one of the wildest and least populated landscapes of the island, in contrast to the otherwise heavily used island covered in thick forests and their geological features has important because of their.

Geology

Although not itself a volcano, Mount Hillaby is the highest point of an extended hundreds of miles of volcanic system, located mostly below sea level, extends approximately between Puerto Rico and Trinidad. This is an accretionary prism, which is caused by the meeting of Caribbean and South American plate and the island up suppressed. The flanks of the mountain are made of up to 100 meters thick oceanic sediments, which among other calcareous next volcanic mud and contain siliceous earth. The marl, which is also located at Mount Hillaby many places open days, contains numerous fossils. Alone in the summit region of Mount Hillaby over 50 species were found by radiolarians.

Ways

Mount Hillaby is accessible by a road from Hillaby, which just leads to a lookout point below the summit. To the Summit Point introduces sometimes overgrown footpath. Mount Hillaby is known for its views over the island, especially on the East Coast.

Flora and Fauna

Are the last remaining rainforests of the island on the slopes of Mount Hillaby. Particularly noteworthy is the north of the peak location on a spur of the mountain Turner 's Hall Wood. The diverse flora includes, among other things, the sandbox tree, the West Indian Zedrele, the dyer mulberry trees and Bully. As representatives of the bird fauna Tyrannus dominicensis and Quiscalus lugubris be mentioned.