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The island is located 40 nautical miles (46 mi; 74 km) west of Jérémie on the south west peninsula of Haiti, [8] and measures 2 square miles (5.2 km 2). Haiti also has several lakes. The largest lake in Haiti, and the second largest lake of the island of Hispaniola and the West Indies, is Lake Azuei.
The Petite Rivière de Jacmel takes its source in the foothills of the mountain range called Chaîne de la Selle, and set in Hispaniola's Tiburon Peninsula.Over approximately 10 kilometers long, the river then runs Eastwards, to meet South with the Caribbean Sea at the level of its mouth in the bay of the port-city of Jacmel.
The river was named by the Arawak-speaking indigenous inhabitants of the island, the Taínos, as "Dahabōn", which derivates from dajaus, a freshwater fish that lives in the Caribbean region. The French version of the river, "Rivière du Massacre" (River of Massacre), refers to a battle in 1728 where Spanish settlers killed thirty French ...
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The Dominican Republic–Haiti border is an international border between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Extending from the Caribbean Sea in the south to the Atlantic Ocean in the north, the 391 kilometres (243 mi) border was agreed upon in the 1929 Dominican–Haitian border treaty .
The river is the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti for several kilometres, from the town of Pedro Santana to the point where it is joined by the River Macasía, and then turns west into Haiti. Its watershed has an area of 9,013 km 2 (2,614 km 2 in the Dominican Republic, 6,399 km 2 in Haiti).