Official Name: | Limonade |
Native Name: | Limonad |
Settlement Type: | Commune |
Pushpin Map: | Haiti |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Haiti |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Haiti |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Nord |
Subdivision Type2: | Arrondissement |
Subdivision Name2: | Cap-Haïtien |
Population As Of: | 7 August 2003 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 69,256 |
Coordinates: | 19.6667°N -72.1167°W |
Elevation M: | 66 |
Limonade (pronounced as /fr/; ht|Limonad) is a commune in the Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement, in the Nord department of Haiti. It has 69,256 inhabitants. Christopher Columbus and his crew celebrated the first Christmas in the Americas at Limonade in 1492.[2] Limonade is also the city in which François Capois, a renowned hero of the Haitian Revolution, died.
In 2012, a new university built by the Dominican Republic was finished near the town, Université Roi Henri Christophe, part of the University of Haiti.[3]