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Port-au-Prince ( ht, Pòtoprens) is an
The arondissement consists of the following
On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck in the arrondissement, the largest in Haiti in two centuries. The city of Port-au-Prince suffered much damage, and estimates of upwards of 50,000 deaths, with many facilities destroyed. In
'Haiti Disaster Like "No Other"'
AFP, Lisa Millar, ''17 January 2010'' (accessed 17 January 2010) Roughly half the structures were destroyed in
arrondissement
An arrondissement (, , ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands.
Europe
France
The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissements ...
in the Ouest Ouest (French for west) may refer to:
*Ouest (department), Haiti
*Ouest Department (Ivory Coast), defunct administrative subdivision of Ivory Coast
* Ouest Province, Cameroon
* Ouest Province, Rwanda
*Ouest-France, a French newspaper
* West France ...
department of Haiti. It had 2,109,516 inhabitants at the 2003 Census which was estimated to have risen to 2,759,991 in 2015 in an area of 735.78 sq km (284.09 sq mi
The square mile (abbreviated as sq mi and sometimes as mi2)Rowlett, Russ (September 1, 2004) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved February 22, 2012. is an imperial and US unit of measure for area. One square mile is an are ...
). Postal codes in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement start with the number 61.
Communes
The arondissement consists of the following communes
An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, relig ...
:
* Port-au-Prince
* Carrefour
Carrefour () is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. The eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, it operates a chain of hypermarkets, groceries stores and convenience stores, whic ...
* Cité Soleil
Cité Soleil ( ht, Site Solèy; English: ) is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area in Haiti. Cité Soleil originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 ...
* Delmas
* Gressier
Gressier (; ht, Gresye) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on th ...
* Kenscoff
Kenscoff ( ht, Kenskòf) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti, located in the foothills of the Chaîne de la Selle mountain range, some 10 kilometres to the southeast of the capital city of Port- ...
* Pétion-Ville
Pétion-Ville ( ht, Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle. Founded in 1831 by president Jean-Pierre Boyer, it was named ...
* Tabarre
Tabarre ( ht, Taba) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti. It is part of the urbanized area of Port-au-Prince, just northeast of the main part of the city, and next to Delmas.
The Haitian governme ...
History
2010 7.0 earthquake
On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck in the arrondissement, the largest in Haiti in two centuries. The city of Port-au-Prince suffered much damage, and estimates of upwards of 50,000 deaths, with many facilities destroyed. In Pétion-Ville
Pétion-Ville ( ht, Petyonvil) is a commune and a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in the hills east and separate from the city itself on the northern hills of the Massif de la Selle. Founded in 1831 by president Jean-Pierre Boyer, it was named ...
, the earthquake collapsed a hospital in the city. In Carrefour
Carrefour () is a French multinational retail and wholesaling corporation headquartered in Massy, France. The eighth-largest retailer in the world by revenue, it operates a chain of hypermarkets, groceries stores and convenience stores, whic ...
, half of the buildings were destroyed in the worst-affected areas.ABC News'Haiti Disaster Like "No Other"'
AFP, Lisa Millar, ''17 January 2010'' (accessed 17 January 2010) Roughly half the structures were destroyed in
Gressier
Gressier (; ht, Gresye) is a commune in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on th ...
.
See also
*Arrondissements of Haiti
An ''arrondissement'' (; ht, awondisman) is a level of administrative division in Haiti.
, the 10 departments of Haiti were divided into 42 arrondissements.
Arrondissements are further divided into communes and communal sections.
The term a ...
* Communes of Haiti
The commune () is the third-level divisions of Haiti. The 10 departments have 42 arrondissements, which are divided into 144 communes and then into 571 communal sections.
Communes are roughly equivalent to civil townships and incorporated muni ...
References
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