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Jacmel
Jacmel is a port city on the south coast of Haiti, founded by the French in 1698 and now capital of the Sud-Est department. In the nineteenth century it was one of the country's main coffee-exporting ports, and its merchant houses with iron balconies survive. Simón Bolívar sailed from Jacmel in December 1816 with Haitian help on his expedition to liberate Venezuela.
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