instance_of effects of hurricane georges in haiti
Nevis is a small ___MASK2___ in the Caribbean ___MASK16___ that forms part of the inner arc of the Leeward Islands chain of the West Indies . Nevis and the neighbouring ___MASK2___ of Saint Kitts constitute one country : the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis . Nevis is located near the northern end of the Lesser Antilles archipelago , about 350 km east - southeast of Puerto Rico and 80 km west of Antigua . Its area is and the capital is Charlestown . Puerto Rico , ( Spanish for " Rich ___MASK64___ ") officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (" Free Associated State of Puerto Rico ") and briefly called Porto Rico , is an ___MASK40___ of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean ___MASK16___ . Hispaniola ( Spanish : " La Española "; Latin : " Hispaniola "; Taíno : " Haiti ") is the 22nd - largest ___MASK2___ in the world , located in the Caribbean ___MASK26___ , the Greater Antilles . It is the second largest ___MASK2___ in the Caribbean after Cuba , and the tenth most populous ___MASK2___ in the world . The 1998 ___MASK25___ ___MASK22___ was one of the deadliest and costliest ___MASK25___ seasons that featured the highest number of storm - related fatalities in over 200 years . It officially began on June 1 and ended on November 30 , dates which conventionally delimit the period during which most tropical cyclones form in the Atlantic Ocean . The first tropical ___MASK39___ , Tropical Storm Alex , developed on July 27 , and the ___MASK22___ ' s final storm , Hurricane Nicole , became extratropical on December 1 . The strongest storm , Mitch , was tied with Hurricane Dean for the seventh most intense ___MASK25___ ever recorded . Mitch is also the second deadliest ___MASK25___ in recorded history . The system dropped tremendous amounts of rainfall in Central America , causing 19 , 000 confirmed deaths and at least $ 6 . 2 billion ( 1998 USD ) in damage . The ___MASK22___ was the first since Hurricane Andrew in the 1992 ___MASK22___ to feature a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir  Simpson hurricane wind scale . Haiti , officially the ___MASK52___ of Haiti , is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean ___MASK16___ . It occupies the western three - eighths of the island , which it shares with the Dominican ___MASK52___ . Haiti is in size and has an estimated 10 . 6 million people , making it the most populous country in the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) and the second - most populous country in the Caribbean as a whole . The ___MASK28___ of Mexico is an ___MASK42___ basin largely surrounded by the North American ___MASK47___ . It is bounded on the northeast , north and northwest by the ___MASK28___ Coast of the United States , on the southwest and south by Mexico , and on the southeast by Cuba . The U . S . states of Alabama , Florida , Louisiana , Mississippi and Texas border the ___MASK28___ on the north , which are often referred to as the " Third Coast " in comparison with the U . S . Atlantic and Pacific coasts , or sometimes the " south coast ", in juxtaposition to the Great Lakes region being the " north coast ." One of the gulf ' s seven main areas is the ___MASK28___ of Mexico basin . Hurricane Mitch was the most powerful and destructive hurricane of the 1998 ___MASK25___ ___MASK22___ , with maximum sustained winds of . The storm was the thirteenth tropical storm , ninth hurricane , and third major hurricane of the ___MASK22___ . Along with Hurricane Georges , Mitch was the most notable hurricane in the ___MASK22___ . At the time , Hurricane Mitch was the strongest ___MASK25___ observed in the month of October , though it has since been surpassed by Hurricane Wilma of the 2005 ___MASK22___ . The hurricane matched the fourth most intense ___MASK25___ on record ( it has since dropped to seventh ). The Caribbean ___MASK16___ is a ___MASK16___ of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere . It is bounded by Mexico and Central America to the west and south west , to the north by the Greater Antilles starting with Cuba , to the east by the Lesser Antilles , and to the south by the north coast of South America . Established in 1973 , the Caribbean ___MASK35___ ( CARICOM ) is an organization of fifteen Caribbean nations and dependencies . CARICOM ' s main purposes are to promote economic integration and cooperation among its members , to ensure that the benefits of integration are equitably shared , and to coordinate ___MASK44___ . Its major activities involve coordinating economic policies and development planning ; devising and instituting special projects for the less - developed countries within its jurisdiction ; operating as a regional ___MASK41___ market for many of its members ( Caricom ___MASK41___ Market ); and ___MASK77___ regional trade disputes . The secretariat headquarters is based in Georgetown , Guyana . The Dominican ___MASK52___ is a sovereign state occupying the eastern two - thirds of the island of Hispaniola , in the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region . The western one - third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti , making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands , along with Saint Martin , that are shared by two countries . The Dominican ___MASK52___ is the second - largest Caribbean nation by area ( after Cuba ) at , and 3rd by population with 10 . 08 million people , of which approximately three million live in the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo , the ___MASK80___ city . The Caribbean ( or ) is a ___MASK14___ that consists of the Caribbean ___MASK16___ , its islands ( some surrounded by the Caribbean ___MASK16___ and some bordering both the Caribbean ___MASK16___ and the North Atlantic Ocean ) and the surrounding coasts . The ___MASK14___ is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland , east of Central America , and north of South America . The effects of Hurricane Georges in Haiti included $ 200 million in damages and at least 400 fatalities . A ___MASK93___ is , in ___MASK23___ , a nonphysical juridical entity that is represented by one centralised ___MASK13___ that has sovereignty over a geographic area . International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population , defined territory , one ___MASK13___ , and the capacity to enter into relations with other sovereign states . It is also normally understood that a ___MASK93___ is neither dependent on nor subjected to any other power or state . Hurricane Georges was a powerful and long - lived ___MASK19___ Verde - type ___MASK60___ 4 hurricane which caused severe destruction as it traversed the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico in ___MASK7___ 1998 , making ___MASK8___ landfalls along its ___MASK24___ . Georges was the seventh tropical storm , fourth hurricane , and second major hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane ___MASK22___ . It became the second most destructive storm of the ___MASK22___ after Hurricane Mitch , the costliest Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Andrew in 1992 , and the deadliest since Hurricane Gordon in 1994 . Georges killed 604 people , mainly on the island of Hispaniola , and caused extensive damage resulting at just under $ 10 billion ( 1998 US dollars , $ USD ) in damages mostly in St . Kitts and Nevis , Puerto Rico and Hispaniola . The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean ___MASK16___ : Cuba , Hispaniola ( containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic ), Puerto Rico , Jamaica , and the Cayman Islands . The Greater Antilles constitute over 90 % of the land mass of the entire West Indies , as well as over 90 % of its population , with the balance made of the archipelago of the Lesser Antilles , which is a chain of islands to the east ( running north - south and encompassing the eastern edge of the Caribbean ___MASK16___ where it meets the Atlantic Ocean ) and south ( running east - west off the northern coast of South America ).