Mirebalais
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Mirebalais
Mibalè | |
|---|---|
  Mirebalais Location in Haiti | |
| Coordinates: 18°50′0″N 72°6′19″W / 18.83333°N 72.10528°W | |
| Country |  Haiti |
| Department | Centre |
| Arrondissement | Mirebalais |
| Established | 1702 |
Mirebalais (
Haitian Creole: Mibalè) is a commune in the Centre department of Haiti, approximately 60 km northeast of Port-au-Prince
on National Road 3. The city was established in 1702.
American
hydroelectric power
transmission grid, the city normally has electricity throughout the day and night.
During the
United Nations occupation of 2005, Nepalese
troops were stationed in the city, using the city jail as their headquarters.
A U.S. military C-17 cargo plane carried out a large airdrop of food and supplies here in the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
Health
Mirebalais is served by the teaching hospital Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, the largest solar-operated hospital in the world.
Sport
Mirebalais is home to the AS Mirebalais sports team.
Notable Mirebalaisians
- Benoit Batraville (1877-9 March 1920[1]) successor to Charlemagne Péralte leading the Cacos resistance to the US occupation of Haiti.[2][1]
- Madame Max Adolphe (b. 1925; whereabouts unknown), a notorious torturer and leader of the Duvalier regime.
References
- ^ a b Pierre Clitandre (24 September 2018). "La tombe abandonnée de Benoît Batraville". Le Nouvelliste.
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