Official Name: | Ranquitte |
Native Name: | Rankit |
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: | Saint-Raphaël |
Population As Of: | 7 August 2003 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 18,197 |
Coordinates: | 19.4167°N -72.0833°W |
Elevation M: | 512 |
Ranquitte (pronounced as /fr/; Haitian; Haitian Creole: Rankit) is a commune in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, in the Nord department of Haiti. It has 18,197 inhabitants.
The school in Ranquitte is the Spady-Calhoun school named partly in honor of one of its benefactors, Dr. Steven Spady of Hindman, KY. There is also a Health Clinic on campus there. Both the school and clinic are overseen by a Haitian staff and maintained by Christian Flights International, a non-profit missionary organization that has been sending trips into this area for over 40 years.