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___ Satellite View and Map of the City of Port-au-Prince (Pòtoprens), Haiti |
Cité Soleil (sun city) a slum area in Port-au-Prince, the shacks are built on a rubbish dump. Image: Thomas Black |
About Port-au-PrinceSatellite view is showing Port-au-Prince, chief port, largest city and the national capital of an impoverished Haiti, located on the west coast of the island of Hispaniola at a bay of the Gulf of Gonave. The city was founded by the French in 1749, it became the capital of the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1770 and remained its capital when country gained independence and was renamed Haiti in 1804. Official languages are French and Haitian Creole.On 12 January 2010 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, many aftershocks followed and left the Haitian capital in a shambles and half of the city's population displaced. Port-au-Prince has a population of estimated 1.2 million inhabitants and more than 2.5 to 3 million live in its metropolitan area, including the rapid growing slums on the hillsides above the city, like the neighborhoods of Carrefour, Martissant, Bel Air, or Cité Soleil , an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune built on a rubbish dump, originally developed as a shanty town, it grew to a slum with estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents. And the slums of the capital will grow larger, if neighboring Dominican Republic begins enforcing new legislation which deports any foreign-born worker, most of them Haitians, hundreds of thousands of migrant workers now face deportation. The map shows a city map of Port-au-Prince with expressways, main roads and streets, and the location of Toussaint Louverture International Airport (IATA code: PAP). To find a location use the form below. |
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