Marmelade ( ht, Mamlad) is a
commune and former
duchy
A duchy, also called a dukedom, is a medieval country, territory, fief, or domain ruled by a duke or duchess, a ruler hierarchically second to the king or queen in Western European tradition.
There once existed an important difference between ...
in the
Artibonite department of
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and s ...
. It is the chief town of the
Marmelade Arrondissement, which also includes the
commune of
Saint Michel de l'Attalaye
Saint-Michel-de-l'Attalaye ( ht, Sen Michèl Latalay; es, San Miguel de la Atalaya) is a commune in the Marmelade Arrondissement, in the Artibonite department of Haiti.
It has 95,216 inhabitants. It is the second largest city geographically af ...
.
Marmelade is the home town of Président
René Préval
René Garcia Préval (; 17 January 1943 – 3 March 2017)
was a Haitian politician and agronomist who served twice as President of Haiti; once from early 1996 to early 2001, and again from mid 2006 to mid 2011. He was also Prime Minister from ...
. During the years following his first tenure, Préval initiated rural development projects in Marmelade, including a manufacturer of
bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, ...
furniture.
Populated places in Artibonite (department)
Communes of Haiti
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