Dondon
Dondon is a commune in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, in the Nord department of Haiti. It has 25,846 inhabitants. Dondon is nicknamed "the city of caves" with numerous natural caves in the surrounding mountains. The most famous is the voûte-à-Minguet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Milot and Grande-Rivière-du-Nord.
Milot
Grande-Rivière-du-Nord
Town
Photo: Nyou9117, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grande-Rivière-du-Nord is a commune in the Grande-Rivière-du-Nord Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti. Jean-Jacques Dessalines was born there in 1758 on the Cormiers plantation. Grande-Rivière-du-Nord is situated 10 km northeast of Dondon.
Dondon
- Type: Town with 25,500 residents
- Description: commune in Nord, Haiti
- Categories: commune of Haiti and locality
- Location: Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, Nord, Haiti, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
19.52744° or 19° 31′ 39″ northLongitude
-72.24272° or 72° 14′ 34″ westPopulation
25,500Elevation
427 metres (1,401 feet)Open location code
77F9GQG4+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 614934420OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
3726263Wikidata ID
Q2430230
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“Dondon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “دوندن”
- Cebuano: “Dondon”
- Chinese: “Dondon”
- Dutch: “Dondon”
- French: “Dondon”
- German: “Dondon”
- German: “Trou-du-Dondon”
- Greek: “Ντοντόν”
- Haitian: “Dondon”
- Italian: “Dondon”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dondon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dondon”
- Portuguese: “Dondon”
- Romanian: “Dondon”
- Spanish: “Dondon”
- Swedish: “Dondon”
- Uzbek: “Dondon”
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