Fond des Blancs
Fond-des-Blancs is a communal section located in the Sud department of Haiti in the Aquin Arrondissement. It is one of several communities of Polish Haitians, mixed-race descendants of Polish Legionnaires who originally fought with the French against the Haitian Revolution.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 2,650 residents
- Description: a town located in Haiti
- Also known as: “Fond-des-Blancs”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fond-des-Blancs Airport.
Fond-des-Blancs Airport
Aerodrome
Fond-des-Blancs Airport is an airstrip 2 kilometres northeast of Fond-des-Blancs, a communal section in the Sud Department of Haiti. It is surrounded by rising terrain in all quadrants, with large hills immediately south of the runway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Balangnin and Puit Chacha.
Balangnin
Hamlet
Balangnin is a village in the Aquin commune of the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti.
Puit Chacha
Hamlet
Puit Chacha is a rural settlement in the Aquin commune of the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti. Puit Chacha is situated 7 km south of Fond des Blancs.
Vincent
Hamlet
Aquin is a commune in the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti. It is a port on the south coast of the Tiburon Peninsula. It had 104,216 inhabitants in 2015, up from 1,799 in 1950. Vincent is situated 9 km northwest of Fond des Blancs.
Fond des Blancs
- Categories: commune of Haiti and locality
- Location: Aquin Arrondissement, Sud, Haiti, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.27733° or 18° 16′ 38″ northLongitude
-73.12565° or 73° 7′ 32″ westPopulation
2,650Elevation
303 metres (994 feet)Open location code
77C87VGF+WPOpenStreetMap ID
node 617885461OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3725364Wikidata ID
Q3075313
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Fond des Blancs” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فوند ديس بلانكس”
- Cebuano: “Fond des Blancs”
- Dutch: “Fond des Blancs”
- French: “Fond des Blancs”
- French: “Fond-des-Blancs”
- German: “Fond-des-Blancs”
- German: “Fondeblan”
- Greek: “Φον-ντε-Μπλαν”
- Haitian: “Fondèblan (komin)”
- Haitian: “Fondèblan”
- Japanese: “フォン＝デ＝ブラン”
- Spanish: “Fond-des-Blancs”
- Swedish: “Fond des Blancs”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Tribunal De Paix De Fond De Blanc and Minister De La Justice.
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