The Tiburon Peninsula or simply "the Tiburon", is a region 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...

 encompassing all of Haiti's southern coast. It starts roughly at the southernmost of the Haiti-Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

 border and extends westward near Cuba

Cuba

The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

, forming a large headland

Headlands and bays

Headlands and bays are two related features of the coastal environment.- Geology and geography :Headlands and bays are often found on the same coastline. A bay is surrounded by land on three sides, whereas a headland is surrounded by water on three sides. Headlands are characterized by high,...

. Four of Haiti's ten departments are located entirely within the region. They are the departments of Grand'Anse

Grand'Anse Department

Grand'Anse is one of the ten administrative departments of Haiti. Its capital is Jérémie.-History:...

, Nippes

Nippes Department

Nippes is the newest department of Haiti, having been split from Grand'Anse Department in 2003. The capital of the department is Miragoâne.The department is divided into three arrondissements:* Miragoâne Arrondissement...

, the Sud

Sud Department

Sud is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It has an area of and a population of 745,000 . Its capital is Les Cayes. A large part of the population of Haitians in this department is of mixed race, mulattoes along with other mixtures such as Arabs and East Indians...

, and the Sud-Est

Sud-Est Department

Sud-Est is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It has an area of 2,023 km² and a population of 518,200 . Its capital is Jacmel...

. A large part of the Ouest Department

Ouest Department

Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It is the jurisdictional seat of the national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince. It has an area of and a population of 3,093,698 . It borders the Dominican Republic to the east.It is the second largest department in Haiti after the Artibonite...

 is also located in the region, with the capital, 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....

 serving as the line of demarcation between central Haiti and the south. The biological hot-spot of the Massif de la Hotte

Massif de la Hotte

The Massif de la Hotte is a mountain range in southwestern Haiti, on the far-western end of the Tiburon Peninsula. The region is relatively remote and is one of the most biologically diverse and significant areas of all of Hispaniola. It also supports some of the last stands of Haiti's dense cloud...

is located in the region (the extreme southwest) in which various endemic species on the island originate.

External links

• http://evo.bio.psu.edu/caribherp/biogeo/hisp.htm