Jacmel - Revision history

Stumax: Updated pencil sketch with copyright information.

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−	[[image:jacmel_map_1799.jpg\|right\|thumb\|290px\|Map of Jacmel in [[1799]].]] [[image:Jacmel_sketch_1800.jpg\|right\|thumb\|290px\|Sketch of the siege of Jacmel in [[1800]].]] '''Jacmel''' (also: ''Jacquemel'' and ''Jaquimel'', [[Kreyòl]]: ''Jakmèl'') is a coastal city in [[Haiti]] (Department: Sud-Est (South-East), 18°14'N 72°32'W).<br>	+	[[image:jacmel_map_1799.jpg\|right\|thumb\|290px\|Map of Jacmel in [[1799]].]] [[image:Jacmel_sketch_1800.jpg\|right\|thumb\|290px\|Sketch of the siege of Jacmel in [[1800]]. Copyright © 2007 Broos Campbell. Used by permission. All rights reserved.]] '''Jacmel''' (also: ''Jacquemel'' and ''Jaquimel'', [[Kreyòl]]: ''Jakmèl'') is a coastal city in [[Haiti]] (Department: Sud-Est (South-East), 18°14'N 72°32'W).<br>
	The city is located on on the [[Caribbean Sea]] in the Baie de Jacmel about 40 km (25 miles) Southeast of the capital [[Port-au-Prince]].		The city is located on on the [[Caribbean Sea]] in the Baie de Jacmel about 40 km (25 miles) Southeast of the capital [[Port-au-Prince]].

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	Jacmel is one of Haiti's major port towns and was a hub of coffee shipping wich provided much of it's wealth in the 19th century. Jacmels airport (JAK) is located to the east on the outskirts of the town and has a runway length of of 1,242 m (4,075 ft).		Jacmel is one of Haiti's major port towns and was a hub of coffee shipping wich provided much of it's wealth in the 19th century. Jacmels airport (JAK) is located to the east on the outskirts of the town and has a runway length of of 1,242 m (4,075 ft).
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		+	===Jacmel and the January 2010 Earthquake===
		+	Jacmel sustained extensive damage on January 12, 2010 when an earthquake and many aftershocks hit the town. Jacmel was cut of from the Haitian capital, which (being closer to the epi center of the quake) suffered devastating destruction. In Jacmel buildings collapsed, the hospital had to turn away injured people and vital infrastructure collapsed.

	==History of Jacmel==		==History of Jacmel==

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 [[image:jacmel_map_1799.jpg|right|thumb|290px|Map of Jacmel in [[1799]].]] [[image:Jacmel_sketch_1800.jpg|right|thumb|290px|Sketch of the siege of Jacmel in [[1800]].]] '''Jacmel''' (also: ''Jacquemel'' and ''Jaquimel'', [[Kreyòl]]: ''Jakmèl'') is a coastal city in [[Haiti]] (Department: Sud-Est (South-East), 18°14'N 72°32'W).<br>
 The city is located on on the [[Caribbean Sea]] in the Baie de Jacmel about 40 km (25 miles) Southeast of the capital [[Port-au-Prince]].
 ==History of Jacmel==

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 ====Videos====
-* Daniel Santos sings Panama mwen tonbe: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LXCQYCH64 Daniel Santos panama me tombe] - song about a man leaving Jacmel performed by Puerto Rican singer Daniel Santos in New York.
+* Daniel Santos sings ''Panama mwen tonbe'': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LXCQYCH64 (Panama me tombe)] - song about a man leaving Jacmel performed in Haitian Creole by Puerto Rican singer Daniel Santos in New York (1986).
 ** Lyrics of [http://martinique.artblog.fr/r7101/Paroles-de-chansons/3/ Panama mwen tonbe] - also has audio of a female singer.
 * [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gyay_prefete-duffaut-haiti-extrait_creation Préfète Duffaut: piété et urbanisme imaginaire] - Excerpt of a 2007 documentary directed by Arnold Antonin. (French and Haitian Creole language)

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 ====Videos====
-* Daniel Santos sings Panama mwen tonbe: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LXCQYCH64 DANIEL SANTOS panama me tombe]
+* Daniel Santos sings Panama mwen tonbe: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LXCQYCH64 Daniel Santos panama me tombe] - song about a man leaving Jacmel performed by Puerto Rican singer Daniel Santos in New York.
 * [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gyay_prefete-duffaut-haiti-extrait_creation Préfète Duffaut: piété et urbanisme imaginaire] - Excerpt of a 2007 documentary directed by Arnold Antonin. (French and Haitian Creole language)
 * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgUpO37gsaE Jacmel, Haiti (documentary)] - Excerpt of a documentary from 1998 by Rachèle Magloire and Carl Lafontant. (French Language)
-** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Préfète_Duffaut Wikipedia: Préfète Duffaut]
+* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Préfète_Duffaut Wikipedia: Préfète Duffaut]
 ===Travel information===

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	====Videos====		====Videos====
		+	* Daniel Santos sings Panama mwen tonbe: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-LXCQYCH64 DANIEL SANTOS panama me tombe]
	* [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gyay_prefete-duffaut-haiti-extrait_creation Préfète Duffaut: piété et urbanisme imaginaire] - Excerpt of a 2007 documentary directed by Arnold Antonin. (French and Haitian Creole language)		* [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gyay_prefete-duffaut-haiti-extrait_creation Préfète Duffaut: piété et urbanisme imaginaire] - Excerpt of a 2007 documentary directed by Arnold Antonin. (French and Haitian Creole language)

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 ===Jacmel today===
-The port town is internationally known for it's vibrant art scene and elegant townhouses dating to the 1800's. In recent years Jacmel has been host to a large film festival: Festival Film Jakmèl, This festival led to the founding of Haiti's first film school, the Ciné Institute. It's traditional carnival, the nearby Bassins Bleu (blue water pools), and the beaches such as Ti Mouyaj and Raymond les Bains attract many domestic and international visitors.
+The port town is internationally known for it's vibrant art scene and elegant townhouses dating to the 1800's. In recent years Jacmel has been host to a large film festival: Festival Film Jakmèl, This festival led to the founding of Haiti's first film school, the Ciné Institute. It's traditional carnival, the nearby Bassins Bleu (blue water pools), and the beaches such as Ti Mouyaj (Ti Mouillage) and Raymond les Bains attract many domestic and international visitors.
 ===Notable residents of Jacmel===

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 ===Ramón Emeterio Betances stays in Jacmel===
-[[image:Ramon_Emeterio_Betances.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Betances.]] In 1870 at the request of Jean Nissage-Saget, Haiti's president at the time, the surgeon and Puerto Rican nationalist and participant in El Grito de Lares (The Cry of Lares a.k.a. Lares Uprising in 1868), spent time in Jacmel. Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán (1827 – 1898) is often named as ''El Padre de la Patria'' (Father of the Puerto Rican Nation) and was also a diplomat, public health administrator, poet and novelist. He served as representative and contact for Cuba and the Dominican Republic in Paris.
+[[image:Ramon_Emeterio_Betances.jpg|left|thumb|80px|Betances.]] In 1870 at the request of Jean Nissage-Saget, Haiti's president at the time, the surgeon and Puerto Rican nationalist and participant in El Grito de Lares (The Cry of Lares a.k.a. Lares Uprising in 1868), spent time in Jacmel. Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán (1827 – 1898) is often named as ''El Padre de la Patria'' (Father of the Puerto Rican Nation) and was also a diplomat, public health administrator, poet and novelist. He served as representative and contact for Cuba and the Dominican Republic in Paris.
 President Saget supported Betances's efforts to organize an uprising in the [[Dominican Republic]] and his ideas of a Pan-[[Antilles|Antillean]] union. In 1872 Betances gave a speech concerning Caribbean unity to a Masonic Lodge in the Haitian capital: