Léogâne is an arrondissement

Arrondissements of Haiti

||The ten departments of Haiti are divided into 42 arrondissements. The arrondissements are listed below, by department:-Artibonite Department:*Dessalines*Gonaïves*Gros-Morne*Marmelade*Saint-Marc-Centre Department:*Cerca-la-Source*Hinche*Lascahobas...

 in the Ouest Department

Ouest Department

Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It is the jurisdictional seat of the national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince. It has an area of and a population of 3,093,698 . It borders the Dominican Republic to the east.It is the second largest department in Haiti after the Artibonite...

 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...

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It has 300,982 inhabitants.
Postal codes in the Léogâne Arrondissement start with the number 62.

The arondissement consists of the following municipalities:

• Léogâne
  Léogane
  Léogâne is a seaside town in Ouest Department, Haïti. It is located in the eponymous arrondissement, the Léogâne Arrondissement. The port town is located about West of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The town was at the epicenter of the 12 January 2010 earthquake, and was catastrophically...
  
  
• Petit-Goâve
• Grand-Goâve

2010 7.0 Earthquake

On 12 January 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck

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...

 the arrondissement. The city of Léogane

Léogane

Léogâne is a seaside town in Ouest Department, Haïti. It is located in the eponymous arrondissement, the Léogâne Arrondissement. The port town is located about West of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince. The town was at the epicenter of the 12 January 2010 earthquake, and was catastrophically...

 was estimated to be 80-90% destroyed. Petit Goâve

Petit Goâve

Petit-Goâve is a coastal town in Ouest Department, Haïti. It is located southwest of Port-au-Prince. The town has a population of approximately 12,000 inhabitants.-History:...

 was greatly affected by the quake. All public buildings in Grand-Goâve were destroyed.