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Môle Saint-Nicolas (Mòlsennikola or Omòl in Haitian Creole) is a town in the Republic of Haiti. It is the chief town of the Môle Saint-Nicolas Arrondissement in the department
Departments of Haiti

Haiti is divided into 41 arrondissements, and 133 communes....
 of Nord-Ouest
Nord-Ouest Department

Nord-Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti of Haiti as well as the northernmost one. It has an area of 2,176 km? and a population of 488,500 ....
. It is located on the site where Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....
 landed on December 6, 1492. The town's fête
Fête

F?te is a French language word meaning festival, party, holiday or even birthday , which has passed into English as a label that may be given to certain events....
 day is December 6 each year, to celebrate Columbus' arrival. The town received its present name after France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 gained control of the western part of Hispaniola
Hispaniola

Hispaniola is the second-largest and most populous island of the Antilles, lying between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east....
 in 1697.

Môle Saint-Nicolas has a population of about 4,000 people, with another 20,000 spread throughout the rural areas nearby.






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Môle Saint-Nicolas (Mòlsennikola or Omòl in Haitian Creole) is a town in the Republic of Haiti. It is the chief town of the Môle Saint-Nicolas Arrondissement in the department
Departments of Haiti

Haiti is divided into 41 arrondissements, and 133 communes....
 of Nord-Ouest
Nord-Ouest Department

Nord-Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti of Haiti as well as the northernmost one. It has an area of 2,176 km? and a population of 488,500 ....
. It is located on the site where Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....
 landed on December 6, 1492. The town's fête
Fête

F?te is a French language word meaning festival, party, holiday or even birthday , which has passed into English as a label that may be given to certain events....
 day is December 6 each year, to celebrate Columbus' arrival. The town received its present name after France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
 gained control of the western part of Hispaniola
Hispaniola

Hispaniola is the second-largest and most populous island of the Antilles, lying between the islands of Cuba to the west, and Puerto Rico to the east....
 in 1697.

Môle Saint-Nicolas has a population of about 4,000 people, with another 20,000 spread throughout the rural areas nearby. In October 2007 it received its first external telecommunications capability with the construction of the Digicel
Digicel

Digicel is a mobile phone network provider covering parts of Oceania, Latin America, and the Caribbean regions. The company, which is incorporated in Bermuda, and based in Jamaica, provides mobile services in 26 countries and territories throughout the Caribbean and Central America with more than six million wireless users....
 network tower above the town. The road network of Haiti is in general decrepit, with roads in the north-west being no exception. However, in Mole itself, the roads are passable in a sturdy vehicle. There is a dirt airstrip to the north of the town. The town has running water from a run-of-river channel constructed in the 1970s, which feeds a reservoir above the town and is distributed via PVC pipes to spigots throughout the town. A medical clinic in the town has been staffed by Slovakia
Slovakia

Slovakia . It was amended in September 1998 to allow direct election of the president and again in February 2001 due to EU admission requirements....
n volunteer doctors from a private university, since the end of 2006.

The town has many forts, built by the French. Ruine Poudriere is an old magazine
Magazine (artillery)

Magazine is the name for an item or place within which ammunition is stored. It is taken from the Arabic word "makahazin" meaning "warehouse"....
 built sometime in the 1750s.

The main source of local food is the sea.