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Gonaïves
Gonaïves (; also Les Gonaïves; , ) is a commune in northern Haiti, and the capital of the Artibonite department of Haiti. The population was 356,324 at the 2015 census. History The city of Gonaïves was founded around 1422 by a group of Taíno, who named it ''Gonaibo'' (to designate a locality of cacicat of the Jaragua). The Gulf of Gonâve is named after the town. In 1802, an important battle of the Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revolution ( or ; ) was a successful insurrection by slave revolt, self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the sovereign state of Haiti. The revolution was the only known Slave rebellion, slave up ..., the Battle of Ravine-à-Couleuvres was fought near Gonaïves. Gonaïves is also known as Haiti's city of independence, because it was the location of Jean-Jacques Dessalines declaring Haiti independent from France on January 1, 1804, by reading the Act of Independence, drafted by Boisrond Tonnerre, on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artibonite (department)
Artibonite (; ) is one of the ten departments of Haiti located in central Haiti. With an area of 4,887 km2 it is Haiti's largest department. As of 2015, its estimated population was 1,727,524. The region is the country's main rice-growing area. The main cities are Gonaïves (the capital) and Saint-Marc. In February 2004 an National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti, insurgency tried unsuccessfully to declare Artibonite's independence. Etymology The name L'Artibonite is derived from the Artibonite River, the longest river on Hispaniola. L'Artibonite is derived from the Taino ''ja'tibonicu'' meaning "Great High Place of the Sacred waters, Sacred Waters." Under Toussaint's administration of the island, the department was known as Toussaint's Department. History Taino Period During that period the actual department seats between the three casicas of Marien, Maguana, and Xaragua. The border between those chiefdoms is assumed to be the Artibonite River. Although ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Hanna (2008)
Hurricane Hanna was a moderately powerful but deadly tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage across the Western Atlantic, mostly in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the East Coast of the United States. The eighth named storm and fourth hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season. It formed east-northeast of the northern Leeward Islands on August 28. Initially, the storm struggled to intensify due to moderate wind shear as it moved westwards towards the Bahamas. By August 31, Hanna had drifted southwards and began intensifying while over the Bahamas; it attained its peak intensity as a List of Category 1 Atlantic hurricanes, Category 1 hurricane while over the Turks and Caicos Islands. Due to the Outflow (meteorology), outflow of the nearby Hurricane Gustav, Hanna weakened back into a tropical storm the next day as it began to drift northwestwards towards the Southeastern United States. The storm struck Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, before moving up the Eastern Seaboa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Université Publique De L'Artibonite Aux Gonaïves
The Université Publique de l'Artibonite aux Gonaïves (, UPAG) is a public institution of higher education located in Gonaïves, Haiti founded on 5 January 2007. Its enrollment for 2016–2017 reached more than 1,400 students. UPAG has a staff of more than 80 professors (full-time/part-time) and more than 45 administrative staff. The university maintains cooperation with the national academia with a network of public sister universities in Les Cayes, Port-de-Paix, Jacmel, Cape, Fort-Liberté, Miragoâne, Jérémie and Hinche, as well as with Quisqueya University. Internationally, the university plans to formalize a partnership with the University of Massachusetts (UMASS) in Boston and the Florida State University Florida State University (FSU or Florida State) is a Public university, public research university in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida and a preeminent university in the s ... (FSU) in Tallahas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, is the most populous Caribbean country. The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince. Haiti was originally inhabited by the Taíno people. In 1492, Christopher Columbus established the first European settlement in the Americas, La Navidad, on its northeastern coast. The island was part of the Spanish Empire until 1697, when the western portion was Peace of Ryswick, ceded to France and became Saint-Domingue, dominated by sugarcane sugar plantations in the Caribbean, plantations worked by enslaved Africans. The 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution made Haiti the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the second republic in the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Racing FC (Gonaives)
Racing Football Club, usually known as Racing Gonaïves, is a professional football club based in Gonaïves, Haiti. History Racing des Gonaïves was founded on 7 April 1962, by a Catholic priest named Louis Simon. He named it after Racing Haïtien whom he was a fan of and donned the same yellow and blue colours. Honours *Ligue Haïtienne: 3 ::1996, 2008 F, 2016 O International competitions *CONCACAF Champions League: 4 appearances ::1985 – first round (Caribbean) – lost against Golden Star (football club) 1 – 0 on aggregate (stage 1 of ?) ::1991 – second round (Caribbean) – lost against US Marinoise 4 – 3 on aggregate (stage 2 of 7) ::1993 – first round (Caribbean) – lost against Aiglon du Lamentin 4 – 0 on aggregate (stage 1 of 5) ::1994 – first round (Caribbean) – withdrew against FC AK Regina (stage 2 of 7) *CONCACAF Cup Winners Cup: 1 appearance ::1991 – Fourth place *CFU Club Championship: 1 appearance ::2010 – second round – Group E – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hurricane Jeanne
Hurricane Jeanne was the deadliest tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin since Mitch in 1998, and the deadliest tropical cyclone worldwide in 2004. It was the tenth named storm, the seventh hurricane, and the fifth major hurricane of the season, as well as the third hurricane and fourth named storm of the season to make landfall in Florida. After wreaking havoc on Hispaniola, Jeanne struggled to reorganize, eventually strengthening and performing a complete loop over the open Atlantic. It headed westwards, strengthening into a Category 3 hurricane and passing over the islands of Great Abaco and Grand Bahama in the Bahamas on September 25. Jeanne made landfall later in the day in Florida just two miles (three kilometers) from where Hurricane Frances had struck a mere three weeks earlier. Building on the rainfall of Frances and Hurricane Ivan, Jeanne brought near-record flood levels as far north as West Virginia and New Jersey before its remnants turned east into the open ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gonaïves Arrondissement
Gonaïves () is an arrondissement in the Artibonite department of Haiti. It has 263,858 inhabitants.''Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique'' (IHSI), 7 August 2003. Postal codes in the Gonaïves Arrondissement start with the number 41. The arrondissement consists of the following municipalities: * Gonaïves * Ennery * L'Estère L'Estère (; ) is a commune in the Gonaïves Arrondissement, in the Artibonite department of Haiti. It has 3,000 inhabitants. This historical city of 3,000 inhabitants is where the famous battle of the Haitian Revolution The Haitian Revo ... References Arrondissements of Haiti Artibonite (department) {{Arrondissements of Haiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front
The National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation and Reconstruction of Haiti () was a rebel group in Haiti that controlled most of the country following the 2004 Haitian coup d'état. It was briefly known as the "Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front", after the country's central Artibonite region, before being renamed on February 19, 2004, to emphasize its national scope. The group can be considered an alliance between two elements within the coup: armed anti-government gangs and former soldiers of the disbanded Haitian army. The most prominent of the gangs was the one based in Gonaïves, formerly known as the "Cannibal Army", who had once supported Lavalasian-party President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide but later turned against him. The coup initiated with the Cannibal Army's capture of Gonaïves on February 5, 2004. It was led until his death in 2005 by Buteur Metayer since the murder (allegedly on Aristide's orders) of Buteur's brother, Amiot Metayer, in late 2003. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Henry
Ariel Henry (; born 6 November 1949) is a Haitian neurosurgeon and politician who served as the acting Prime Minister of Haiti, prime minister of Haiti from Assassination of Jovenel Moïse, the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021 until his resignation on 24 April 2024, due to gangs actions taking more of the capital. During this period where the role of the President of Haiti was vacant, the Government of Haiti#Cabinet, Council of Ministers he presided exercised executive power. He also served as the acting Ministry of Interior and Territorial Communities (Haiti), Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities. Henry became involved in a controversy due to his refusal to cooperate with the authorities regarding his connections with Joseph-Félix Badio, one of the suspects accused of orchestrating the assassination of Moïse. Officers who investigated the case suspected Henry was involved in planning the assassination. On 11 March 2024, Henry announced that he would resign w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité
Empress Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité Bonheur, Empress of Haiti (8 May 1758 – 8 August 1858) was the Empress of Haiti (1804–1806) as the wife of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. Background She was born in Léogâne to a poor but free family as the daughter of Guillaume Bonheur and Marie-Sainte Lobelot. She was educated by her aunt Élise Lobelot, who was the governess of a religious order. She married Pierre Lunic, master-cartwright to the Brothers of Saint-Jean de Dieu. She became a widow in 1795. The siege of Jacmel During the siege of Jacmel in 1800, she made herself a name for her work for the wounded and starving. She managed to convince Dessalines, who was one of the parties besieging the city, to allow some roads to the city to be opened, so that the wounded in the city could receive help. She led a procession of women and children with food, clothes and medicine back to the city, and then arranged for the food to be cooked on the streets. Life with Dessal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haitian Creole: ''Jan-Jak Desalin''; ; 20 September 1758 – 17 October 1806) was the first Haitian Emperor, leader of the Haitian Revolution, and the first ruler of an independent First Empire of Haiti, Haiti under the Constitution of Haiti, 1805 constitution. Initially regarded as governor-general, Dessalines was later named Emperor of Haiti as Jacques I (1804–1806) by generals of the Haitian Revolutionary army and ruled in that capacity until being assassinated in 1806. He spearheaded the resistance against French rule of Saint-Domingue, and eventually became the architect of the 1804 Haitian Genocide, 1804 massacre of the remaining French residents of newly independent Haiti, including some supporters of the revolution. Alongside Toussaint Louverture, he has been referred to as one of the father of the nation, fathers of the nation of Haiti. Under the rule of Dessalines, Haiti became the first country in the Americas to permanently abolish slavery. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Communes Of Haiti
The commune () is the third-level divisions of Haiti. The 10 departments have 42 arrondissements, which are divided into 147 communes and then into 571 communal sections. Communes are roughly equivalent to civil townships and incorporated municipalities. Administration Each commune has a municipal council (''conseil municipal'') compound of three members elected by the inhabitants of the commune for a 4-year term. The municipal council is led by a president often called ''mayor''.Each commune has a municipal assembly (''assemblée municipale'') who assists the council in its work. The members of the assembly are also elected for 4 years. Each commune is ruled by a municipality. List Artibonite * Dessalines Arrondissement ** Dessalines ** Desdunes ** Grande-Saline ** Petite Rivière de l'Artibonite * Gonaïves Arrondissement ** Gonaïves ** Ennery ** L'Estère * Gros Morne Arrondissement ** Gros-Morne ** Anse-Rouge ** Terre-Neuve * Marmelade Arrondissement ** Marmelad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
