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    Situated between the communes of Jacmel et Bainet. The name La Vallée de Jacmel could translate as "The Valley of Jacmel" but it is located 800 meters above...
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    Jacmel (French pronunciation: [ʒakmɛl]; Haitian Creole: Jakmèl) is a commune in southern Haiti founded by the Spanish in 1504 and repopulated by the French...
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  • after the war. Initially most Poles settled in Cazale, La Vallée-de-Jacmel, Fond-des-Blancs, La Baleine, Port-Salut and Saint-Jean-du-Sud, where they lived...
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    Voute Grande Rivière de Jacmel Bas Coq Chante Haut Coq Chante La Vanneau La Montagne La Vallée de Jacmel ou Muzac La Vallée de Bainet ou Ternier Morne...
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    Bainet Côtes-de-Fer Belle-Anse Arrondissement Belle-Anse Anse-à-Pitres Grand-Gosier Thiotte Jacmel Arrondissement Jacmel Cayes-Jacmel La Vallée Marigot There...
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    provinces plantations and briefly controlling two major cities, Léogâne and Jacmel. Ogé and Chavannes organized more than 300 blacks the Suisses to rebel against...
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    Bainet Côtes-de-Fer Belle-Anse Arrondissement Belle-Anse Anse-à-Pitres Grand-Gosier Thiotte Jacmel Arrondissement Jacmel Cayes-Jacmel La Vallée Marigot Aquin...
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    Tortuga Island (French: Île de la Tortue, IPA: [il də la tɔʁty]; Haitian Creole: Latòti; Spanish: Isla Tortuga, IPA: [ˈisla toɾˈtuɣa], Turtle Island) is...
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    the RN2 connecting Okay to Miragwàn and Pòtoprens The RD203 connects to Jacmel. The RD205 connects to Tiburon. Les Cayes is a major port town. Due to political...
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    Navassa Island (redirect from La Navase)
    Navassa Island (/nəˈvæsə/; Haitian Creole: Lanavaz; French: Île de la Navasse, sometimes la Navase) is a small uninhabited island in the Caribbean Sea. Located...
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  • codes in the Jacmel Arrondissement start with the number 91. The arrondissement consists of the following communes: Jacmel Cayes-Jacmel La Vallée Marigot In...
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    Gonâve Island or Zile Lagonav (French: Île de la Gonâve, pronounced [ɡɔ.nɑv]; also La Gonâve) is an island of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince...
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    far from the coast (west of Etang Saumâtre), ironically named Santa Maria de la Paz Verdadera, which would be abandoned several years later. Not long thereafter...
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    comprises: I. The urban centre of Port-de-Paix II. Baudin III. Aubert IV. Mahotière V. Bas-des-Moustiques VI. La Corne Port-de-Paix is also the chief town of...
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    de Jacmel. To access the site, you need to go in the direction of La Vallée-de-Jacmel, and then Bassin-Bleu. From the village of Bassin-Bleu, the road...
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  • when the English came to remove Port-Républicain. They then returned to Jacmel. The English occupied the city, and returned the people to slavery. In March...
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    L'Estère Artibonite Gonaïves 41,068 La Chapelle Artibonite Saint-Marc 28,695 La Vallée-de-Jacmel Sud-Est Jacmel 33,127 La Victoire Nord Saint-Raphaël 9,587...
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    behaviors. Later on, Toussaint defeated the French troops at the Bataille-de-la-Ravine-à-Couleuvre near the town of Gonaives. In Gonaives the French captured...
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    Haiti (category Member states of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie)
    of the country's international flights. Cities such as Jacmel, Jérémie, Les Cayes, and Port-de-Paix have smaller, less accessible airports that are serviced...
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    Les Cayes (redirect from La Ville de Cayes)
    was the town of Salvatierra de la Sabana, founded by the Spanish explorer Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar in 1504. Vasco Núñez de Balboa was a co-founder of...
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    Hinche (redirect from Lares de Guahaba)
    founding of San Rafael de La Angostura and San Miguel de la Atalaya in the Central Plateau, which along with San Francisco de Bánica and Dajabón had 18...
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  • The town of Cayes-Jacmel was founded in 1714. The commune is made up of 4 sections: Ravine-Normande Gaillard Haut-Cap-Rouge La Selle de Fond-Melon Fort...
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    Radio Voix de l'ile, 94.5 FM Radio Digital, 101.3 FM Radio Oxygene, 103.3 FM Radio Passion, 101.7 FM Haïti Radio City Inter Haïti La Radio de l'éducation...
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  • Saint-Michel-de-l'Atalaye was founded in 1768 as San Miguel de la Atalaya, on the grounds of the Estancia Marigallega by lieutenant-colonel José de Guzmán y...
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    Section, Great River, 4th Section, Gosseline which belongs to the commune of Jacmel, and the 2nd Section, Nouvelle-Tourraine, and the 20th Section, Bongars...
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    east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle. Founded in 1831 by president Jean-Pierre Boyer, it was named after...
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    Territoriale des Collectivités" (PDF) (in French). Commission nationale a la reforme administrative (CNRA). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 May...
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  • Romaine-la-Prophétesse's slave uprising around and siege of Jacmel. The Haitian writer Emile Célestin-Mégie [fr] was born in Marigot. Institut Haïtien de Statistique...
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    to grow cotton there. He left for Haiti on May 17, 1862, and arrived in Jacmel on June 3. From there he went on horseback to Port-au-Prince, where he was...
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    in the Ouest department of Haiti, located in the foothills of the Chaîne de la Selle mountain range, some 10 kilometres to the southeast of the capital...
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