Lafiteau, also called Carrefour Lafiteau, is a small industrial port town, about nine miles north of the capital,

Port-au-Prince Port-au-Prince ( , ; ht, Pòtoprens ) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 987,311 in 2015 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. The metropolitan area is define ...

, in the commune of

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in the

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. It lies to the south of

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. Many supply ships entered this port in the aftermath of the

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as part of earthquake relief operations. The road to the port is maintained well after the earthquake, and the port and its jetties also, which suffered damages due to the earthquake, are in continuous process of refurbishing.

Geography

Lafiteau, with an average elevation of , is east-southeast of Ile à Cabrit and southwest of the coast. Several

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patches are distributed less than a miles off the coast.

Transportation

The nearest airport to the port town is the

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at Port-au-Prince where Insel Air, American Airways, Air Canada,

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, Air Bridge Cargo provide both air cargo and passenger services. The port is approached from the Port-au-Prince over a well maintained road, Route Nationale 1 (100).

Economy

The economy of the port town is supported by notable processing plants, including the Caribbean Mills Processing Plant and the Grain Processing Plant. In 2009, Les Moulins d'Haiti, a wheat flour mill, sold more than 170,000 metric tons of wheat flour.

Port Lafito

Lafiteau is the home of the Port Lafito Industrial Free Zone, Haiti's only

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seaport. Quay side terminal of 130,000 square meters (13 hectares), 450 meters of berth, 12.5 meters of safe draft, Dock height is approximately 3.3 meters above mean sea level.

Jobs

The construction of the Port Lafito and of a free zone, located 25 minutes from Port-au-Prince, at a cost of US$150 million, is part of the "Lafito Global" project initiated by

Gilbert Bigio Gilbert Bigio is a retired Haitian businessman. He is the founder of GB Group and Haiti's only billionaire. He was sanctioned by the Government of Canada for his involvement in arms trafficking and human rights violations in Haiti. Bigio is als ...

's GB Group, in partnership with the Haitian government and several other Haitian private sector entrepreneurs to create jobs and stimulate the local economy. Over 20,000 jobs will be created within the next four years.

Healthcare

The Hospital Centre of the Haitian Academy is located in Lafiteau. In October 2010, news reports stated there were two

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-related deaths in Lafiteau.

Mass graves

Victims of the Haiti presidents "Papa Doc" Duvaliers and "Baby Doc" Duvalier were buried in mass graves in Lafiteau, as were 100,000 of the

victims.

References

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External links

Map of Lafiteau, Haiti
Populated places in Haiti