Étang Saumâtre is a salt-waterlake located at 18°35'N 72°00'W in southeastern Haiti, bordering the Dominican Republic. The lake has an area of around 168 km² (65 square miles and is 29 km (18 miles) east of Port-au-Prince on the fertile Cul-de-Sac. It is about 29km (18 miles) long and up to 9.7km (6 miles) wide.
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"Saumâtre, Étang." The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. Columbia University Press: 2000. [1] (http://www.bartleby.com/69/7/S07107.html)
After heavy rains it occasionally forms a continuous sheet of water with another lake called Azuey, or EtangSaumatre, which is 16 m.
to Manneville on the EtangSaumatre, another runs from Cap Haitien to La Grande Riviere, 15 m.
The people are almost entirely pure-blooded negroes, the mulattoes, who form about 10% of the population, being a rapidly diminishing and much-hated class.
Lake Enriquillo in the southwestern section of the Dominican Republic is located at 18º30’N and 71º40’W, occupying the lowest part of the basin known as Hoya del Lago Enriquillo between the Neyba and Bahoruco ranges, and has geomorphological characteristics that are unique in the Caribbean region.
In Haiti, Saumatre Lagood (Étang Saumatre or Lago Azuei) is the countryÂ’s largest lake.
The most pressing causes of the degradation of LakeSaumatre and its surroudings involve the inflow of human and animal waste, sediments coming from mountain rains, contamination from detergents and other chemicals and the burning of trees (Octave 1999).
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