Les Cayes

Les Cayes is a town and seaport in near the river Ravine du Sud, on the Caribbean coast. It is the capital of the Sud Département. Formerly known as "Aux Cayes".
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  • Type: City with 70,000 residents
  • Description: city in Haiti
  • Also known as: Cayes” and “Ville des Cayes

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gelée.

Hamlet
is a village in the Les Cayes commune of the , in the department of .

Les Cayes

Latitude
18.1944° or 18° 11′ 40″ north
Longitude
-73.7512° or 73° 45′ 4″ west
Population
70,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
CYA
United Nations Location Code
HT ACA
Open location code
77C856VX+QG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1667873346
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3728097
Wiki­data ID
Q984786
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Les Cayes” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: ليس كايس
  • Armenian: Լես Կայես
  • Asturian: Les Cayes
  • Azerbaijani: Le-ke
  • Belarusian: Ле-Ке
  • Bengali: লেস কায়েস
  • Catalan: Les Cayes
  • Catalan: Okei
  • Cebuano: Les Cayes
  • Chinese: Les Cayes
  • Chinese: 莱凯
  • Chinese: 萊凱
  • Czech: Les Cayes
  • Danish: Les Cayes
  • Dutch: Aux Cayes
  • Dutch: Les Cayes
  • Estonian: Les Cayes
  • Finnish: Les Cayes
  • French: Les Cayes
  • Georgian: ლე-კე
  • German: Les Cayes
  • Greek: Λε Κάιγ
  • Gujarati: લેસ કયેસ
  • Haitian: Okay
  • Haitian: vil prensipal depatman Sid
  • Hebrew: לה קאיה
  • Hindi: लेस केएस
  • Hungarian: Les Cayes
  • Indonesian: Les Cayes
  • Irish: Les Cayes
  • Italian: Les Cayes
  • Japanese: オカイ
  • Japanese: レ・ケーユ
  • Japanese: レカイ
  • Kannada: ಲೆಸ್ ಕೇಯ್ಸ್
  • Korean: 레카이
  • Korean: 르카예
  • Latvian: Lekaja
  • Lithuanian: Le Kajus
  • Malay: Les Cayes
  • Marathi: लेस कायेस
  • Min Nan Chinese: Les Cayes
  • Mingrelian: ლე-კე
  • Northern Frisian: Les Cayes
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Les Cayes
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Aux Cayes
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: Les Cayes
  • Norwegian: Les Cayes
  • Persian: له کای
  • Polish: Les Cayes
  • Portuguese: Les Cayes
  • Romanian: Les Cayes
  • Russian: Ле-Ке
  • Sinhala: ලෙස් කයෙස්, හයිටිය
  • Sinhala: ලෙස් කයෙස්
  • Slovenian: Les Cayes
  • Spanish: Les Cayes
  • Spanish: Los Cayos
  • Swedish: Les Cayes
  • Tamil: லெஸ் கேஎஸ்
  • Telugu: లెస్ కేయస్
  • Thai: เลกาย
  • Turkish: Les Cayes
  • Ukrainian: Ле-Ке
  • Urdu: لے سائیس
  • Vietnamese: Les Cayes

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Les Cayes”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.