Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement
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Saint-Raphaël is an arrondissement
Arrondissements of Haiti
||The ten departments of Haiti are divided into 42 arrondissements. The arrondissements are listed below, by department:-Artibonite Department:*Dessalines*Gonaïves*Gros-Morne*Marmelade*Saint-Marc-Centre Department:*Cerca-la-Source*Hinche*Lascahobas...

 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...

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It has 117,530 inhabitants.
Postal codes in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement start with the number 14.

Communes

The arondissement consists of the following municipalities:
  • Saint-Raphaël
    Saint-Raphaël, Haiti
    Saint-Raphaël is a city and municipality in Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, Nord Department, Haiti. It is the seat of Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement....

  • Dondon
    Dondon
    Dondon is a municipality in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti.It has 25,846 inhabitants....

  • Ranquitte
    Ranquitte
    Ranquitte is a municipality in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti.It has 18,197 inhabitants....

  • Pignon
    Pignon
    Pignon is a municipality in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti.It has 29,327 inhabitants.- Government :The actual first mayor is Wiswick Fidel, and the second mayor is Henri Claude Crepin....

  • La Victoire

History

In the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks...

, food had become short in supply. On 31 January 2010, a food shipment sent through the Pignon Airport, for an orphanage in the commune of Pignon
Pignon
Pignon is a municipality in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti.It has 29,327 inhabitants.- Government :The actual first mayor is Wiswick Fidel, and the second mayor is Henri Claude Crepin....

, was looted just after leaving the airport gates. A negotiation between aide shippers and the local mayor lead to a partitioning of food aide between the orphanage and the rest of the population.
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