Official Name: | Petit-Trou-de-Nippes |
Native Name: | Ti Twou de Nip |
Settlement Type: | Commune |
Pushpin Map: | Haiti |
Pushpin Label Position: | top |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Haiti |
Coordinates: | 18.5333°N -73.5167°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Haiti |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Type2: | Arrondissement |
Subdivision Name1: | Nippes |
Subdivision Name2: | Anse-à-Veau |
Elevation M: | 0 |
Population Total: | 36,143 |
Population As Of: | 7 August 2003 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Petit-Trou-de-Nippes (in French pronounced as /pəti tʁu də nip/; Haitian; Haitian Creole: Ti Twou de Nip) is a commune in the Anse-à-Veau Arrondissement, in the Nippes department of Haiti. It has 36,143 inhabitants.
On 14 August 2021 it was near the epicenter of a magnitude 7.2 earthquake that has killed at least 2,207 people and injured 12,268 more.
In 1963, the commune was devastated by Hurricane Flora, destroying 85% of the village.
The town's name means "Little hole of Nippes".[2]