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Grande Rivière De Jacmel
The Grande Rivière de Jacmel or Rivière de la Cosse, is a river in Haiti. It is approximately 45 kilometers long. See also *List of rivers of Haiti This is a list of rivers of Haiti, arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean *Dajabón River (Massacre River) *Grande Rivière du Nord *Rivière du Limbè *Les Trois Rivièr ... ReferencesGEOnet Names Server Rivers of Haiti {{Haiti-river-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacmel
Jacmel (; ht, Jakmèl) is a commune in southern Haiti founded by the Spanish in 1504 and repopulated by the French in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est, 24 miles (39 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince across the Tiburon Peninsula, and has an estimated population of 40,000, while the commune of Jacmel had a population of 137,966 at the 2003 Census. The town's name is derived from its indigenous Taíno name of ''Yaquimel''. In 1925, Jacmel was dubbed as the "City of Light," becoming the first in the Caribbean to have electricity. The city is known for its well-preserved French Colonial architecture built in the early 19th century. The town has been tentatively accepted as a World Heritage Site. It sustained damage in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. History The town was founded by the ''Compagnie de Saint-Domingue'' in 1698 as the capital of the southeastern part of the French colony Saint-Domingue. The area now called Jacmel was Taíno territory, part of the Xaragua ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island which it shares with the Dominican Republic. To its south-west lies the small Navassa Island, which is claimed by Haiti but is disputed as a United States territory under federal administration."Haiti" ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. Haiti is in size, the third largest country in the Caribbean by area, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million, making it the most populous country in the Caribb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Rivers Of Haiti
This is a list of rivers of Haiti, arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean *Dajabón River (Massacre River) * Grande Rivière du Nord *Rivière du Limbè * Les Trois Rivières Gulf of Gonâve The Gulf of Gonâve (french: Golfe de la Gonâve; ht, Gòf Lagonav) is a large gulf of the Caribbean Sea along the western coast of Haiti. Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, is located on the coast of the gulf. Other cities on the gulf coast ... *Rivière la Quinte *Rivière l’Estère *Artibonite River **Rivière de Fer à Cheval **Macasía River **Guayamouc River ***Rivière Bouyaha ***Rivière Canot **Rivière Lociane **Libón River *Rivière de Saint-Marc *Rivière Montrouis *Rivière Blanche (Artibonite) *Rivière Blanche (Ouest) *Rivière Grise (Grande Riviere du Cul de Sac) *Momance River *Rivière de Grand Goâve *Grande Rivière de Nippes *Grande-Anse River Caribbean Sea *Acul River *Ravine du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |