![]() ![]() In 1606, those persons living in the old Spanish towns of Bayajá and Yaguana had, by orders of the Spanish king, to move to the eastern part of the island, to a new town called Bayaguana, combining the two old names. But soon this town was abandoned and the people moved to the east, founding in 1578 a new town with the Taíno name of the region: Bayajá. ![]() The arrondissement has three communes (a commune is like a municipality): Fort-Liberté, Ferrier (Kreyòl: Ferye) and Perches (Kreyòl: Opèch).īetween 15, Nicolás de Ovando, Spanish governor of the Hispaniola, founded the town of Puerto Real ( English, "Royal Port") where is the present town of "Caracol", to the west of Fort-Liberté. It is also the chief town of an arrondissement (a part of a department) with the same name. The city is on the Baie de Fort-Liberté ("Fort-Liberté Bay") about 56 km east of Cap-Haïtien and to the west of the Dominican Republic. It is the capital city of the Nord-Est Département. Fort-Liberté ( Kréyòl: Fòlibète English: "Fort Liberty") is a city in northeast Haiti, on the Atlantic coast. ![]()
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