Official Name: | Marigot |
Native Name: | Marigo |
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: | Sud-Est |
Subdivision Type2: | Arrondissement |
Subdivision Name2: | Jacmel |
Population As Of: | 7 August 2003 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 50,734 |
Coordinates: | 18.2333°N -72.3167°W |
Elevation M: | 41 |
Marigot (pronounced as /fr/; ht|Marigo) is a commune in the Jacmel Arrondissement, in the Sud-Est department of Haiti. It has 50,739 inhabitants.
In early 1793, during the Haitian Revolution, Marigot's black inhabitants rebelled and built a fort in the city.[2] Abbé Aubert, a white priest and leader of the rebellion in the area, also commandeered Marigot's cannons and contributed them to Romaine-la-Prophétesse's slave uprising around and siege of Jacmel.
The Haitian writer was born in Marigot.[3]