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Limonade
Limonad
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Limonade
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Location in Haiti | |
Coordinates: 19°40′0″N 72°7′0″W / 19.66667°N 72.11667°W / 19.66667; -72.11667 | |
Country | Haiti |
Department | Nord |
Arrondissement | Cap-Haïtien |
Elevation | 66 m (217 ft) |
Population
(7 August 2003)[1]
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• Total | 69,256 |
Limonade (Haitian Creole: Limonad) is a commune in the Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement, in the Nord departmentofHaiti. It has 69,256 inhabitants. Christopher Columbus and his crew celebrated the first Christmas in the Americas at Limonade in 1492.[2] Limonade is also the city in which François Capois, a renowned hero of the Haitian Revolution, died.
In 2012, a new university built by the Dominican Republic was finished near the town, Université Roi Henri Christophe, part of the University of Haiti.[3]
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