Bainet () is a commune in the Bainet Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est 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 62,300 inhabitants as of 2003.

History

In late 1791 and early 1792, during the early

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 ...

, slaves in Bainet rebelled as part of the Trou Coffy uprising led by Romaine-la-Prophétesse. The commune's administrative offices were destroyed as a result of the

2010 Haiti earthquake The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic Moment magnitude scale, magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake that struck Haiti at 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest (departm ...

. As a result, from 2010 to 2016, city officials worked in prefabricated premises funded by the

United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti The United Nations Stabilisation Mission in Haiti (), also known as MINUSTAH, an acronym of its French name, was a United Nations, UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti from 2004 to 2017. It was composed of 2,366 military personnel and 2,533 police, s ...

(MINUSTAH). MINUSTAH ultimately funded the creation of a new town hall, which was inaugurated in October 2016.

Notable people

The Haitian artist and photographer

Gérald Bloncourt Gérald Bloncourt (4 November 1926 – 29 October 2018), also known as Gérard Bloncourt, was a Haitian painter and photographer resident in the suburbs of Paris, France. Born in the small city of Bainet, in Haiti's Sud-Est department, Bloncour ...

was born in Bainet.Eleanor Ingalls Christensen, ''The Art of Haiti'' (1975), page 64

References

Populated places in Sud-Est (department) Communes of Haiti {{Haiti-geo-stub