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    Léogâne (Haitian Creole: Leyogàn) is one of the coastal communes in Haiti. It is located in the eponymous Léogâne Arrondissement, which is part of the...
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  • Postal codes in the Léogâne Arrondissement start with the number 62. The arondissement consists of the following communes: Léogâne Petit-Goâve Grand-Goâve...
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  • Haiti. She was born Simone Ovide in about 1913 near the Haitian town of Léogâne, the daughter of a mulatto merchant and writer, Jules Faine, and Célie...
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  • near Léogâne, likely in what is now Fondwa. Various notarial records show Romaine buying and selling land and slaves in the area around Léogâne and Grande...
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  • l'Université Épiscopale d'Haïti à Léogâne or FSIL (English- Faculty of Nursing Science of the Episcopal University of Haiti in Léogâne) is a baccalaureate nursing...
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  • Trouin is a town in the Léogâne Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti. It is located 37 kilometers (23 mi) southwest of Haiti's capital city...
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    Thomazeau La Gonâve Arrondissement Anse-à-Galets Pointe-à-Raquette Léogâne Arrondissement Léogâne Grand-Goâve Petit-Goâve Port-au-Prince Arrondissement Port-au-Prince...
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    have become national symbols of Haiti and tourist attractions. Modern-day Léogâne, started as a French colonial town in the southwest, is beside the former...
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    CITYMED de Pétion-Ville, Pétion-Ville Hôpital Sainte-Croix, Léogâne Hôpital Camejo, Léogâne Hôpital de l'Université d'État [fr], Port-au-Prince Hôpital...
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    burned. Anacaona was hanged. Anacaona was born in Yaguana (present-day Léogâne, Haiti), the capital of Jaragua, in 1474 (?). Her name was derived from...
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  • Valencia Football Club is a professional football club based in Léogâne, Haiti. The club plays in Haiti's top national league, the Ligue Haïtienne. Valencia...
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    suffered damage. In the Léogâne Arrondissement, the city of Léogâne suffered 80-90% destruction. Other places[which?] in Léogâne were also affected. Ouest...
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    He had his seat at a place called Guava, near the present-day city of Léogâne, Haiti; it was divided into 26 nitaínos. The situation among the native...
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    evaded a French column sent to capture him and stormed Léogâne. The Haitians burned down Léogâne and killed all of the French with the Trinidadian historian...
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  • Petit Paradis (French: Little Paradise) is a town in the Léogâne Arrondissement in the Ouest department of Haiti. A tsunami wave three metres or higher...
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    Petit-Goâve (Haitian Creole: Ti Gwav) is a coastal commune in the Léogâne Arrondissement in the Ouest department of Haiti. It is located 68 kilometres...
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  • Durissy is a village in the Léogâne Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti. It is west-southwest of Port-au-Prince. The village suffered damage...
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  • Les Palmes is a rural settlement in the Léogâne Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti. There are more than 30,000 people living in the area...
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  • The Coupe d'Haïti is the premier elimination tournament of the Ligue Haïtienne. Finals so far: 1927 : Violette AC 1928 : Violette AC 1929 : Violette AC...
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    (1804–1806) as the spouse of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. She was born in Léogâne to a poor but free family as the daughter of Guillaume Bonheur and Marie-Sainte...
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  • about 160 kilometres (99 mi) away from the estimated epicenter in the Léogâne Arrondissement. Some chimneys on the distant island of Jamaica collapsed...
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  • Léogâne 1 2007 F Jeunesse Pétion-Ville Pétion-Ville 1 1956 Real Hope FA Cap-Haïtien 1 2017 O Victory SC Port-au-Prince 1 2010 C Valencia FC Léogâne 1...
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    continued to grow, and soon afterward, a new city was founded to the south, Léogâne. While the first French presence in Hôpital, the region later to contain...
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    Gonâve Arrondissement Anse-à-Galets Pointe-à-Raquette Léogâne Arrondissement Grand-Goâve Léogâne Petit-Goâve Port-au-Prince Arrondissement Carrefour Delmas...
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  • Ignace Nau (July 13, 1808 Léogâne - 1845) was a Haitian poet and storyteller. Born in Port-au-Prince, Nau studied in a renowned military school in Haiti...
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  • Hispaniola in 1502, establishing a settlement at Yaguana, near modern-day Léogâne. A second settlement was established on the north coast in 1504 called...
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    of Léogâne, which was at the epicenter of the earthquake, reported that 90% percent of the buildings in that city had been destroyed and Léogâne had...
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    or Gonaïves The biggest city and capital of Artibonite Yaguana Leyogàn, Léogane A coastal town south of Port-au-Prince and capital of the cacicat of Xaragua...
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  • Kenscoff and Port-Salut regions. 8 October: flooding in the Plaine de Léogâne. 1989 23 February: flooding in Île de la Gonâve. 4,945 families affected...
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    (21:53 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The epicenter was near the town of Léogâne, Ouest department, approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Port-au-Prince...
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