Sud is one of the ten departments

Departments of Haiti

The Communes of Haiti are the third-level divisions of Haiti. The 10 departments have 42 arrondissements which are divided into 140 communes.-Artibonite Department:*Dessalines Arrondissement**Desdunes**Dessalines**Grande Saline...

 (French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

: départements) of Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

. It has an area of 2794 square kilometres (1,078.8 sq mi) and a population of 745,000 (2002). Its capital is Les Cayes

Les Cayes

Les Cayes , is a town and seaport in southwestern Haiti, with a population of approximately 45,904 people . Estimates from 2008 place the population at close to 70,000 people...

. A large part of the population of Haitians in this department is of mixed race, mulatto

Mulatto

Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent, or more broadly, a person of mixed black and white ancestry. Contemporary usage of the term varies greatly, and the broader sense of the term makes its application rather subjective, as not all people of mixed white and black...

es along with other mixtures such as Arabs

Arab diaspora

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 and East Indians. These southern parts of Haiti are where many resident Europeans descended to during tense political turmoil and, in more recent years, have returned and settled alongside black Haitians (mostly white European men and black Haitian women). Nowadays, this area of the country has become one of the most racially diverse (excluding Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince

Port-au-Prince is the capital and largest city of the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The city's population was 704,776 as of the 2003 census, and was officially estimated to have reached 897,859 in 2009....

).

The department is divided into five arrondissements:

1. Aquin Arrondissement
   Aquin Arrondissement
   Aquin is an arrondissement of Sud Department in southwestern Haiti.It contains the following municipalities:* Aquin* Cavaellon* Saint-Louis du Sud...
   
   
2. Les Cayes Arrondissement
   Les Cayes Arrondissement
   Les Cayes is an arrondissement in the Sud Department of Haiti.It has 272,100 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Les Cayes Arrondissement start with the number 81.The arondissement consists of the following municipalities:* Les Cayes...
   
   
3. Les Charbonnières Arrondissement
4. Les Côteaux Arrondissement
5. Port-Salut Arrondissement
   Port-Salut Arrondissement
   Port-Salut is an arrondissement in the Sud Department of Haiti.It has 54,286 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Port-Salut Arrondissement start with the number 82.The arondissement consists of the following municipalities:* Port-Salut...
   
   

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