Saint-Raphaël ( ht, Sen Rafayèl) (In Spanish San Rafael) is a

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in the

Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement Saint-Raphaël ( ht, Sen Rafayèl) is an arrondissement in the Nord department of Haiti. As of 2015, the population was 169,867 inhabitants. Postal codes in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement start with the number 14. Communes The arrondissement ...

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of Haiti. It is the seat of Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement. Saint-Raphaël is located at the intersection of Route 307 and National Route 3 between

Cap-Haïtien Cap-Haïtien (; ht, Kap Ayisyen; "Haitian Cape"), typically spelled Cape Haitien in English and often locally referred to as or , is a commune of about 190,000 people on the north coast of Haiti and capital of the department of Nord. Previousl ...

and

Hinche Hinche (; ht, Ench; es, Hincha) is a commune in the Centre department Haiti. It has a population of about 50,000. It is the capital of the Centre department. Hinche is the hometown of Charlemagne Péralte, the Haitian nationalist leader who r ...

.Miller, Debra ''et al. (eds.) (2005) "Haiti" ''Caribbean Islands'' (4th ed.) Lonely Plant, Footscray, Victoria, Australia, p. 244, In plantations in Saint-Raphael, workers harvest green,

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s, quarter them and then separate the peel from the pulp by hand. The peels are dried in the sun and then shipped to France, where they are macerated, distilled and blended with other ingredients to produce the world-famous liqueurs

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and

Cointreau Cointreau (, , ) is a brand of orange-flavoured triple sec liqueur produced in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou, France. It is consumed as an apéritif and digestif, and is a component of several well-known cocktails. It was originally called Curaçao ...

manufactured by the French companies, Société des Produits Marnier-Lapostolle and

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. It was founded as San Rafael de La Angostura in 1761 by Canary Island colonists, mostly from Gran Canaria, although some important canaries came from the nearby town of Hinche. Its population increased somewhat significantly, reaching to take into 1783, 1,079 inhabitants. The 1929 treaty and the clarifications in the 1936 revision were based partially on the idea that the county, whose citizens constituted the majority in an area, should be given jurisdiction for that area. The result of these negotiations was that the Dominican government gave up rights to a significant amount of territory.

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Populated places in Nord (Haitian department) Communes of Haiti {{Haiti-geo-stub