Hinche - History

Hinche is located in Hispaniola, modern Haiti. Christopher Columbus sighted this island on Dec. 6, 1492 on his first journey to the West Indies, leaving a few men there to make a settlement before he moved on to Cuba.

By the end of the 16^th century, most of the island's original Arawak Indian population had disappeared from conquest or warfare or by being worked to death or killed by disease.

Haiti Island become by the middle of the 17^th century, a French colony.

On the 1^st of Jan. 1804, the entire island was declared independent under its original Arawak name of Haiti.

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