Sud-Est Department
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, see South-East DistrictSouth-East District (Botswana)South-East is one of the districts of Botswana.The capital city of Botswana, Gaborone, is surrounded by this district. The administrative capital for the South-East district is the village of Ramotswa....
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Sud-Est (South-East) is one of the ten departments
Departments of Haiti
The Communes of Haiti are the third-level divisions of Haiti. The 10 departments have 42 arrondissements which are divided into 140 communes.-Artibonite Department:*Dessalines Arrondissement**Desdunes**Dessalines**Grande Saline...
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French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
: départements) 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...
. It has an area of 2,023 km² and a population of 518,200 (2002). Its capital is Jacmel
Jacmel
Jacmel, also known by its indigenous Taíno name of Yaquimel, is a town in southern Haiti founded in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est and has an estimated population of 40,000, while the municipality of Jacmel had a population of 137,966 at the 2003 Census.The buildings are...
. It used to be part of Sud Department
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...
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The department is divided into three arrondissements:
- Bainet ArrondissementBainet ArrondissementBainet is an arrondissement in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 166,890 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Bainet Arrondissement start with the number 92.The arondissement consists of the following municipalities:* Bainet...
- Belle-Anse ArrondissementBelle-Anse ArrondissementBelle-Anse is an arrondissement in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 107,446 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Belle-Anse Arrondissement start with the number 93.The arondissement consists of the following municipalities:* Belle-Anse...
- Jacmel ArrondissementJacmel ArrondissementJacmel is an arrondissement in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 246,262 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Jacmel Arrondissement start with the number 91.-Communes in the arrondissement:...
There are fifteen other smaller towns or villages, including:Banane, Bourcan-Bélier, Cavalier, Coutelas, Forêt-des-Pins, La-Fond, La-Vallée, Les-Palmes
Les Palmes, Haiti
Les Palmes is a rural area in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti. There are more than 30,000 people living in the area. -History:The name of the town means "palms" in English....
, Mare-Rouge, Mayette, Mombin, Platon-Besace, Saint-Antoine, Savane-Zombi, and Seguin.
2010 7.0 earthquake
JacmelJacmel
Jacmel, also known by its indigenous Taíno name of Yaquimel, is a town in southern Haiti founded in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est and has an estimated population of 40,000, while the municipality of Jacmel had a population of 137,966 at the 2003 Census.The buildings are...
in Jacmel Arrondissement
Jacmel Arrondissement
Jacmel is an arrondissement in the Sud-Est Department of Haiti.It has 246,262 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Jacmel Arrondissement start with the number 91.-Communes in the arrondissement:...
, a city with many French colonial heritage buildings, was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude tremblor
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...
on 12 January 2010, collapsing much of that heritage architecture.