Place · city

Léogâne

Léogâne is a coastal town in Haiti, west of Port-au-Prince. It stands near the site of Yaguana, seat of the Taíno chiefdom of Jaragua, and under French rule it was a sugar-producing district and for a time the capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue. Close to the epicentre of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, it was largely destroyed.

Léogâne
Image: Majistra Romulus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Mentioned in 1 state history

Cacicazgo of Jaragua

See also

Cite this entry
APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Léogâne. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/leogane
MLA
“Léogâne.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/leogane. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Léogâne.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/leogane.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Léogâne’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/leogane (Accessed: ).

Last reviewed October 2026Random entry ↻