Morne Brabant

-y Morne Brabant ye una península nel estremu sudoeste de Isla Mauricio y el llau más a barloventu de la isla.

Ye destacada por una sola roca basáltica con un cume de 556 metros sobre'l nivel del mar considerada una de les vistes más pimpanes en Isla Mauricio. El cume cubre una área de más de 12 hectárees. Na so fachada esisten numberosa cueves y ta arrodiada d'una llaguna.

Nesta zona atopa una de los trés acutes de la Hibiscus fragilis, una de les plantes más rares del mundu. Otra planta estraña que crez solamente nos llaos del monte ye la Trochetia boutoniana.

Esta llomba foi famosa mientres el sieglu XIX pos los esclavos fuxitivos usar como abelugu. Tres l'abolición de la esclavitú na isla, una espedición de la policía viaxó a la roca'l 1 de febreru de 1835 pa comunicar a los esclavos que yeren xente llibre. Sicasí, los esclavos nun entendieron lo que-yos dicíen y bastiáronse al vaciu suicidándose.['] De magar, esti día ye celebráu polos criollos mauricios como conmemoración añal de l'abolición de la esclavitú.

La península de -y Morne beneficiar d'una microclima.

En 2003 proclamóse la so candidatura pa la llista del Patrimoniu de la Humanidá. En 2008 el procesu de nominación remató incluyéndose'l llugar na llista.

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