Official Name: | Grande-Rivière-du-Nord |
Native Name: | Grann Rivyè dinò |
Settlement Type: | Commune |
Pushpin Map: | Haiti |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Haiti |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Haiti |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Nord |
Subdivision Type2: | Arrondissement |
Subdivision Name2: | Grande-Rivière-du-Nord |
Population As Of: | 7 August 2003 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Coordinates: | 19.5833°N -72.1833°W |
Elevation M: | 91 |
Grande-Rivière-du-Nord (Haitian; Haitian Creole: Grann Rivyè dinò) 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.[2]