Baraderes ( ht, Baradè) is a

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in the

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in the southwest part of

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. The town has a picturesque market square with a large church. There are few shops and no hotels. The area economy is based on

subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...

, although a small association of subsistence farmers, Kafe Devlopman Barade, began exporting coffee to the U.S. in 2008. The town is vulnerable to flooding and is accessible via a rocky dirt road. T The road is periodically improved, but remains passable only by lorries or high-clearance, four-wheel-drive vehicles. Baradères is also accessible by boat from Petite Trou de Nippes, but sedimentation has made the Bay of Baradères very shallow in places and difficult to navigate—even by canoe. The river mouth is increasingly being blocked by sediment. This sediment is a result of severe

soil erosion Soil erosion is the denudation or wearing away of the upper layer of soil. It is a form of soil degradation. This natural process is caused by the dynamic activity of erosive agents, that is, water, ice (glaciers), snow, air (wind), plants, and ...

upstream. Primary causes of the erosion probably are riverbank scouring during heavy rainstorms, along with

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and cropping of hillsides in the Baradères River valley. The most popular Localities in Baradères are principally Fond Tortue which is situated west of L'Étang another village in Baradères, Pays Perdu, Boisneau, Fond-Gondol, Sejour, Gaspard, Nan Renaud, Riviere Salee, Digoterie, Guardier, Bourjolly, Fond-Palmiste, Goulot, Palestine to quote only those.

Administration

The municipality is made up of: The City of Baradères And the 5 municipal sections: 1st Section: Gérin or Mouton 2nd Section: Tet Dlo 3rd Section: Fond-Tortue (including the “Fond-Tortue” district) 4th Section: The Plain 5th Section: Rivière-Salée

References

External links

About Baradères
at Just Haiti

Sister Parish Project - St. Pierre parish Populated places in Nippes Communes of Haiti {{Haiti-geo-stub