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1889-09-10

Provisional government detaches Plaisance and Pilate from Limbe

Haitian

LIMBE [ le ]. Military arrondissement of the 4th class of the Department of the North. Chief town: Limbé. The poste militaire of Camp-le-Coq, located in the rural section of the same name, commune of Limbé, lies within this arrondissement. Its boundaries, according to the law of 17 October 1821, were on the west the line separating it from the arrondissement of the Borgne; on the south-east the line of separation from the arrondissement of the Gonaives down to the foot of the Coupe de la Marmelade; from that point, following a north-east direction up the crest of the Marmelade, then taking an east direction, still following that crest to the place where it turns directly north, it extends, passing by the camp-Louise, to the sea, opposite the Ilet le Rat. Thus this arrondissement occupies on the north the coast from the Ilet le Rat to the foot of the Coupe de Petit, having on the east the arrondissement of the Cap-Haïtien; on the south that of the Marmelade, and on the west that of the Borgne. Since the provisional government detached Plaisance and Pilate from it by its decree of 10…

Rouzier tells this under the entry LIMBE [ le ].

Source  ·  p. t. III, p. 163 Sémexant Rouzier, Dictionnaire géographique et administratif universel d'Haïti (t. III) (1927), p. t. III, p. 163