Arcahaie (; ) is a commune in the

Arcahaie Arrondissement Arcahaie () is an arrondissement in the Ouest of Haiti. As of 2015, the population was 198,551 inhabitants. Postal codes in the Arcahaie Arrondissement start with the number 64. The arrondissement consists of the following communes: * Arcahaie ...

, 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 Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

. In 2015, the commune had 130,306 inhabitants. During the

Gang war in Haiti Since 2020, Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince has been the site of an ongoing gang war. The government of Haiti and Haitian security forces have struggled to maintain their control of Port-au-Prince amid this conflict, with gangs reportedly control ...

on 10 October 2024, the town was attacked by the Taliban gang, causing an unspecified number of casualties.

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Populated places in Ouest (department) Communes of Haiti Port cities in the Caribbean {{Haiti-geo-stub