Basse-Pointe is a locality on the North Atlantic coast of Martinique. It owes its name to the geographical location of its village overhung by a low rocky point. The 6,906 acres (2,795 ha) municipality rises from sea level to 4,196 ft (1,279 m) on a slope of Mount Pelée between Macouba to the north, L'Ajoupa-Bouillon to the south, and Le Lorrain to the east. The first settlers cultivated tobacco and cocoa in the coastal part of the locality and later sugar cane today supplanted by the cultures of bananas and pineapples which occupy more than half of the agrarian surface. Home to a little more than 2,800 inhabitants, Basse-Pointe is the hometown of the writer and politician Aimé Césaire, born on June 26, 1913.