Grande-Rivière-du-Nord
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Grande-Rivière-du-Nord is a municipality in the Grande-Rivière-du-Nord Arrondissement
, in the Nord Department of Haiti
. Jean-Jacques Dessalines
was born there in 1758 on the Cormiers plantation.
Grande-Rivière-du-Nord Arrondissement
Grande-Rivière-du-Nord is an arrondissement in the Nord Department of Haiti.It has 50,692 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Grande-Rivière-du-Nord Arrondissement start with the number 13....
, in the Nord Department 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...
. Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines was a leader of the Haitian Revolution and the first ruler of an independent Haiti under the 1801 constitution. Initially regarded as Governor-General, Dessalines later named himself Emperor Jacques I of Haiti...
was born there in 1758 on the Cormiers plantation.