Aquin

Aquin

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Aquin
native_name = "Aken"
settlement_type = Municipality
pushpin_

pushpin_label_position = left
pushpin_map_caption = Location in Haiti
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name =
subdivision_type1 = Department
subdivision_name1 = Sud
subdivision_type2 = Arrondissement
subdivision_name2 = Aquin
area_total_km2 =
population_as_of = date|7 August 2003
population_footnotes = "Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique" (IHSI)]
population_total = 95,004
population_density_km2 =
latd=18 |latm=17 |lats=0 |latNS=N
longd=73 |longm=24 |longs=0 |longEW=W
elevation_m = 2

Aquin (Creole: "Aken") is a municipality in the Aquin Arrondissement, in the Sud Department of Haiti. It is a port on the south coast of the Tiburon Peninsula. It had 95,004 inhabitants in 2003, up from 1,799 in 1950. [Columbia-Lippincott Gazeteer, p. 86]

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