Petit-Trou-de-Nippes

Petit-Trou-de-Nippes

Petit-Trou-de-Nippes

Commune in Nippes, Haiti

Petit-Trou-de-Nippes (French pronunciation: [pəti tʁu də nip]; Haitian Creole: Ti Twou de Nip) is a commune in the Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the Nippes department of Haiti. It has 36,143 inhabitants.

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On 14 August 2021 it was near the epicenter of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that has killed at least 2,207 people and injured 12,268 more.

In 1963, the commune was devastated by Hurricane Flora, destroying 85% of the village.

The town's name means "Little hole of Nippes".[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI)
  2. [2]
    From Google translate from both Haitian creole and French to English.


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