Rivière Voldrogue (English: Voldrogue River) is a waterway flowing in the Grand'Anse Department of Haiti and the borough of Jérémie. It joins the Gulf of Gonâve about five kilometers (3 miles) east of the city of Jérémie.
Geography[]
The Voldrogue River has its source in the foothills of the Hood Mountain Range on the west end of the Tiburon Peninsula. The stream runs north and empties into the Gulf of Gonâve at Pointe à Pierre, near the mouth of the Guinaudée River and west of the Roseaux River. The Grande Rivière de Jérémie is also near this point.
This beautiful river has a course that is forty-five kilometers (28 miles) long. It often overflows and carries stones in the sea.
Its bed is wide. A new bridge spans the river Voldrogue to allow Route Nationale 7 to cross this stream after crossing those of the Roseaux and the Guinaudée.
Léon[]
On the course of the river, is the village of Léon and the downstream which is more affected by the floods due to a more marked human presence. The locality of Léon is the most important urban area along the river Voldrug. The village of Léon is built on a high terrace overlooking the bottom of the riverbed about 8 to 10m (30 ft.), putting it out of the water. However, the lower parts which developed along the river upstream and downstream of the village (market in particular) are regularly flooded. The second problem of the village is erosion: the opposite bank consists of a cliff that forms a hard point in the morphology of the river where there is no possibility of extending the river (overflow, erosion) during floods. Consequently, the bank on the town side is heavily used during floods. Gabion protection was installed by an NGO in 2013, but seriously damaged since (scour and subsidence of gabions upstream
History[]
A royalist colonist, or rather a monster, named Béranger who had killed thirty farmers in Fort St. Joseph, Port-au-Prince, on the arrival of the English, June 5, 1794. Fleeing the just punishment that was reserved for him, he drowned in the Voldrogue, on his way to Jérémie.
References[]
Voldrogue [1]
Presentation Jeremie [2]