Jacmel

Jacmel is a commune in southern Haiti founded via the Spanish in 1504 and repopulated by using the French in 1698. It is the capital of the department of Sud-Est and has an expected populace of 40,000, even as the commune of Jacmel had a populace of 137,966 on the 2003 Census. The city's name is derived from its indigenous Taino name of Yaquimel. In 1925, Jacmel changed into dubbed as the "City of Light," becoming the primary in the Caribbean to have energy.

The town has nicely-preserved historic French colonial structure that dates back from the early 19th century and has little modified. The metropolis has been tentatively conventional as a World Heritage website online and UNESCO reviews that it has sustained damage in the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The town become founded with the aid of the "Compagnie de Saint-Domingue" in 1698 because the capital of the southeastern a part of the French colony Saint-Domingue. The region now referred to as Jacmel turned into Taino territory, a part of the Xaragua chiefdom ruled by means of cacique Bohechio. With the arrival of the French, and the later established order of the town, the French renamed Yaquimel as Jacmel.