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Jourdain in the region of Nord-Est is a town in Haiti - some 74 mi or ( 119 km ) North-East of Port-au-Prince , the country's capital city .

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Current time in Jourdain is now 11:00 AM (Thursday) . The local timezone is named " America/Port-au-Prince " with a UTC offset of -4 hours. Depending on the availability of means of transportation, these more prominent locations might be interesting for you: Santo Domingo, Santiago de los Caballeros, San Pedro de Macorís, San Juan de la Maguana, and Puerto Plata. Since you are here already, make sure to check out Santo Domingo . We saw some video on the web . Scroll down to see the most favourite one or select the video collection in the navigation. Where to go and what to see in Jourdain ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


Videos

Haiti-Caribian Paradise?-Forgotten people

2:50 min by faroutraveller
Views: 2336 Rating: 4.75

Forgotten People! Showing a smal haitien village near to the boarder of the Dominican Republic. See at the market what kind of food they have to eat and how poor they really are! (This was 2002, today ..

COCINA (www.haiticocina.org)

5:50 min by gkprovideo
Views: 1947 Rating: 5.00

With the help of friends, Hugues Bastien founded the Coalition Outreach of Children in Need Association (COCINA) in 1990 as a US-based 501 (c) (3) charitable organization to support education and spir ..


Dajabón Market Place 1

0:57 min by Wilkes2oo9
Views: 1116 Rating: 0.00

This is a shot of the bridge that spans the river between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. At about :55 you hear an 'actual' horn, from a moto. Most times it's just vendors running along with their w ..

Mission 29.2 - Haiti 2012

5:50 min by Benjamin Chernivsky
Views: 633 Rating: 5.00

This is the official promo video for Mission 29.2's upcoming Haiti 2013 trip. The following was recorded while a team of runners and supporters from the USA - originally organized by Martha Walker of ..


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Interesting facts about this location

Ouanaminthe Arrondissement

Ouanaminthe is an arrondissement in the Nord-Est Department of Haiti. It has 109,594 inhabitants. Postal codes in the Ouanaminthe Arrondissement start with the number 22. The arondissement consists of the following municipalities: Ouanaminthe Capotille Mont-Organisé

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Located at 19.55 -71.72 (Lat./Long.); Less than 13 km away
Tags: Arrondissements of Haiti, Nord-Est Department

Dajabón Airport

Dajabón National Airport is a small airport that serves Dajabón Province in the western Dominican Republic, on the border with Haiti. It supports only small aircraft and has some domestic flights.

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Located at 19.56 -71.68 (Lat./Long.); Less than 17 km away
Tags: Airports in the Dominican Republic

Nord-Est Department

Nord-Est (English: North-East, Haitian Creole: Nòdès) is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It has an area of 1,805 km² and a population of 283,800 (2002). Its capital is Fort-Liberté. It used to be part of Nord Department. It borders the Dominican Republic to the east. The department is divided into four arrondissements: Fort-Liberté Arrondissement Ouanaminthe Arrondissement le Trou-du-Nord Arrondissement

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Located at 19.67 -71.84 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Tags: Departments of Haiti, Nord-Est Department

Capture of Fort-Dauphin (1794)

The Capture of Fort-Dauphin was a bloodless encounter of the French Revolutionary Wars on which a Spanish expedition under Gabriel de Aristizábal seized Fort-Liberté, then named Fort-Dauphin, from Revolutionary France. The French colonial garrisons, consisting of over a thousand men, surrendered without firing a single shot.

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Located at 19.67 -71.84 (Lat./Long.); Less than 19 km away
Tags: Battles and conflicts without fatalities, Battles of the War of the First Coalition, Naval battles involving France, Naval battles involving Spain, Naval battles of the French Revolutionary Wars

Fort la Bouque

Fort la Bouque (commonly referred by locals as labouc) is one of three colonial forts in the North East area of Haiti or more specifically the Arrondissement of Fort-Liberte. The fort is located at the following coordinates {{#invoke:Coordinates|coord}}{{#coordinates:19|42|41.50|N|71|50|39.44|W| | |name= }} Fort-Liberté is Chef Lieu of the North East Department and its own Arrondissement by the same name.

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Located at 19.71 -71.84 (Lat./Long.); Less than 24 km away
Tags: Forts in Haiti, Military history of Haiti

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