Tiburon ( ht, Tibiwon) is a coastal
commune
A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to:
Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in the
Chardonnières Arrondissement
Chardonnières ( ht, Chadonyè) is an arrondissement
An arrondissement (, , ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands.
Europe
France
The 101 Fre ...
, in the
Sud department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
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 ...
.
It has 21,170 inhabitants.
It is situated in a valley, at the mouth of the Tiburon River. The town of Tiburon lends the whole Southwestern peninsula of Haiti its name. See
Tiburon Peninsula
The Tiburon Peninsula (french: Péninsule de Tiburon), or The Xaragua Peninsula, simply "the Tiburon" (''le Tiburon''), is a region of Haiti encompassing most of Haiti's southern coast.
It starts roughly at the southernmost point of the Haiti-D ...
Geology
The valley of the Tiburon River, and the town of Tiburon sit exactly on the
Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault.
Settlements
References
Populated places in Sud (department)
Communes of Haiti
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