Les Palmes is a rural area in the Sud-Est Department

Sud-Est Department

Sud-Est is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It has an area of 2,023 km² and a population of 518,200 . Its capital is Jacmel...

 of Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

. There are more than 30,000 people living in the area.

History

The name of the town means "palms" in English.

During the 2010 Haiti earthquake

2010 Haiti earthquake

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks...

, over 50 deaths were reported. The church, built about 1949, collapsed. Few homes were left in an inhabitable state.

Geography

The town is located in a mountainous area, atop of several mountain tops and within their enclosed valleys.

Education

The village has seven parochial schools run by Notre Dame parish, an elementary and a secondary school. They are privately-funded community schools operating with the approval of the Ministry of Education. They are under the guidance of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince is a metropolitan diocese, responsible for the suffragan Dioceses of Jacmel, Jérémie, Anse-à-Veau and Miragoâne and Les Cayes....

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There are about 6,300 children living in the community.