L'Asile (; ) is a
commune in the
Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the
Nippes department of
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
.
It has 41,073 inhabitants in 2015.
The name comes from French meaning "the asylum". Probably it was used for an asylum during the
colonial era.
References
Populated places in Nippes
Communes of Haiti
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