Cavaellon
Encyclopedia
Cavaellon is a rural town located in the Sud Department
of Haiti
.
Its nearest neighbouring towns/cities are Nan Cotie (12km north), Saint-Louis-du-Sud
(20km southeast), and Les Cayes
(16km west).
The town is most famous for being the birthplace of both Benito Martínez Abrogán
, Cuba's oldest-ever person, and George Valris, a famous Caribbean artist.
Sud Department
Sud is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It has an area of and a population of 745,000 . Its capital is Les Cayes. A large part of the population of Haitians in this department is of mixed race, mulattoes along with other mixtures such as Arabs and East Indians...
of Haiti
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...
.
Its nearest neighbouring towns/cities are Nan Cotie (12km north), Saint-Louis-du-Sud
Saint-Louis-du-Sud
Saint-Louis-du-Sud is a municipality in the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud Department of Haiti.It has 51,125 inhabitants....
(20km southeast), and Les Cayes
Les Cayes
Les Cayes , is a town and seaport in southwestern Haiti, with a population of approximately 45,904 people . Estimates from 2008 place the population at close to 70,000 people...
(16km west).
The town is most famous for being the birthplace of both Benito Martínez Abrogán
Benito Martínez
Benito Martínez Abrogán was a native of Cuba who claimed to be the world's oldest living person. He claimed to have been born on June 19, 1880, near Cavaellon, Haiti; however, he had no documents to verify this and was thus never an officially eligible candidate for this record...
, Cuba's oldest-ever person, and George Valris, a famous Caribbean artist.