Mauritius - Trou D'eau Douce

The village takes its name from the fact that at one place on the shore, source drinking water and comes into contact with salt water. The first inhabitants of Mauritius were the Dutch , but they did not stay there. The Batavian ships docked on the island to get supplies of water and food ( turtles and dodos ), during their trips to and from their colonies in the Dutch East Indies . Trou d'Eau Douce was one of the first places in their water supplies, hence the name.

The period of French colonization was more prosperous. The names of several districts bear witness to this: Montée Bastille, La Peyrousse, Le Maho, Débarcadère, Sept Croisés, Camp Nadal, among others. But there are also Dutch- sounding names like Despéroux, or British like Victoria.

The village housed a sugar cane factory in Victoria, as well as a lime kiln in Le Maho. The lime was an essential component in the production of sugar to the old. When slavery was abolished,
many freedmen stopped working in the fields and settled along the coast, more particularly at Débarcadère and Le Maho, and lived fishing . Hence the origin of the Trou d'Eau Douce fishing tradition.

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