Léogâne
Léogâne is the name of both a coastal city and a district in Ouest Department, Haiti. The city of Léogâne is around 18°30′39″N 72°38′2″W / 18.51083°N 72.63389°W. The arrondissement of Léogâne contains three communes: Petit-Goâve, Grand-Goâve, and the city of Léogâne. The town was at the epicenter of the 12 January 2010 earthquake and was catastrophically affected, with 80–90% of buildings damaged. This is because the country could not afford earthquake-proof buildings as it is very poor.[1][2]
The port town is about 29 kilometres (18 mi) West of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Léogâne is the birthplace of the Taíno queen Anacaona (the town was originally called the Amerindian name Yaguana and the city's name is a corruption of that) and of Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité, the wife of the Haitian revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines (1758).
References
change- ↑ Lisa Millar (17 January 2010). "Tens of thousands neglected at quake epicenter". ABC News. Agence France Presse. Retrieved 17 January 2010.
- ↑ Lisa Millar (17 January 2010). "Haiti Disaster Like "No Other"". ABC News. Agence France Presse. Retrieved 17 January 2010.[permanent dead link]