Aquin Explained

Official Name:Aquin
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
Subdivision Type2:Arrondissement
Subdivision Name2:Aquin
Area Total Km2:638.59
Population As Of:March, 2015
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:104,216
Population Density Km2:163
Coordinates:18.2833°N -73.4°W

Aquin (in French pronounced as /akɛ̃/; Haitian; Haitian Creole: Aken) is a commune in the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti. It is a port on the south coast of the Tiburon Peninsula. It had 104,216 inhabitants in 2015,[1] up from 1,799 in 1950.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mars 2015 Population Totale, Population de 18 ans et Plus Menages et Densites Estimes en 2015 . Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d’Informatique (IHSI) . 3 June 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20151106110552/http://www.ihsi.ht/pdf/projection/Estimat_PopTotal_18ans_Menag2015.pdf . 6 November 2015 .
  2. Columbia-Lippincott Gazetteer, p. 86