Sud (department)

Sud

Sid
Sud Sid
Department
	Sud in Haiti
Country	Haiti
Capital	Les Cayes
Government
• Type	Departmental Council
Area
• Department	2,653.60 km2 (1,024.56 sq mi)
Population (2015)
• Department	774,976
• Density	290/km2 (760/sq mi)
• Urban	176,485
• Rural	598,491
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern)
ISO 3166 code	HT-SD

Sud (English: South) is one of the ten departments (French: départments, singular départment) of Haiti. Its capital is Les Cayes.

Geography

The Départment du Sud has an area of 2,794 km².^[2] It is bordered to the north by the Grand'Anse and Nippes departments, to the east by the Sud-Est Department and by the Caribbean Sea to the west and south.

The Massiff de la Hotte, an important Haitian mountain range, runs from west to east along the centre of the department. Because of this, rivers here are short; some of them are Acul du Sud, Torbeck, Ravine du Sud, de l'Ilet, Cavaillon, des Anglais, Port à Piment, Saut Mathurine, de Tiburon.

Population

The department had, in the 2003 census, a population of 621,651 persons: 312,729 men and 308.922 women, with only 109,623 (17.63%) living in cities and towns.^[3]

Administrative division

The department is divided into five arrondissements (like districts) and 18 communes (like municipalities). The "arrondissements" and their "communes" are:

Aquin
1. Aquin
2. Cavaillon
3. Saint-Louis-du-Sud
Les Cayes
1. Les Cayes
2. Camp-Perrin
3. Chantal
4. Maniche
5. Île-à-Vache
6. Torbeck
Les Chardonnières
1. Les Chardonnières
2. Les Anglais
3. Tiburon
Les Côteaux
1. Les Côteaux
2. Port-à-Piment
3. Roche-à-Bateau
Port-Salut
1. Port-Salut
2. Arniquet
3. Saint-Jean-du-Sud

References

↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2018-01-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Départments géographiques d'Haïti". Haiti-Référence (in French). Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2009.
↑ "Le 4ième Recensement Géneral de la Population et de l'Habitat" (PDF) (in French). Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2009.

Departments of Haiti

Artibonite • Centre • Grand'Anse • Nippes • Nord • Nord-Est • Nord-Ouest • Ouest • Sud • Sud-Est

[1] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-06. Retrieved 2018-01-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[hr-2] "Départments géographiques d'Haïti". Haiti-Référence (in French). Archived from the original on 28 January 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2009.

[census-3] "Le 4ième Recensement Géneral de la Population et de l'Habitat" (PDF) (in French). Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 August 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2009.

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