Les Anglais (; ), French for "The English", is a
commune in the
Chardonnières Arrondissement, in the
Sud
Sud or SUD may refer to:
Places
* Sud (Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg constituency), a constituency in Luxembourg
* Sud (department), an administrative subdivision of Haiti
* Sud Department (Ivory Coast), defunct administrative subdivision of ...
department of
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
. It has 27,182 inhabitants. The
eye
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In higher organisms, the ey ...
of
Hurricane Matthew
Hurricane Matthew was a powerful tropical cyclone which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation in the southeastern United States. The deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Stan ...
made landfall near Les Anglais on 4 October 2016 at 6 a.m.
EST (11:00 a.m.
UTC
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) as a powerful
Category 4 hurricane
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with winds of 230 km/h (145 mph).
Settlements
References
Populated places in Sud (department)
Communes of Haiti
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