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Bienvenue sur le Portail Haïti !
Byenvini nan Pòtal la Ayiti !

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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 Republic. Haiti is 27,750 km² (10,714 sq mi), the third largest country in the Caribbean, and has an estimated population of 11.4 million,0 making it the most populous Caribbean country. The capital is Port-au-Prince.

Haiti is a founding member of the United Nations, Organization of American States (OAS), Association of Caribbean States, and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie. In addition to CARICOM, it is a member of the International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and Community of Latin American and Caribbean States. Historically poor and politically unstable, Haiti has the lowest Human Development Index in the Americas, as well as widespread slavery. (Full article...)

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Distribution of Haitian Creole, areas in dark blue is where it is spoken by a majority, areas in light blue is where it is spoken by a minority.

Haitian Creole (/ˈheɪʃən ˈkriːoʊl/; Haitian Creole: kreyòl ayisyen, [kɣejɔl ajisjɛ̃]; French: créole haïtien, [kʁe.ɔl a.i.sjɛ̃]), or simply Creole (Haitian Creole: kreyòl), is a French-based creole language spoken by 10 to 12 million people worldwide, and is one of the two official languages of Haiti (the other being French), where it is the native language of the vast majority of the population. Northern, Central, and Southern dialects are the three main dialects of Haitian Creole. The Northern dialect is predominantly spoken in Cap-Haïtien, Central is spoken in Port-au-Prince, and Southern in the Cayes area.

The language emerged from contact between French settlers and enslaved Africans during the Atlantic slave trade in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although its vocabulary largely derives from 18th-century French, its grammar is that of a West African Volta-Congo language branch, particularly the Fongbe and Igbo languages. It also has influences from Spanish, English, Portuguese, Taino, and other West African languages. It is not mutually intelligible with standard French, and has its own distinctive grammar. Haitians are the largest community in the world speaking a modern creole language, according to some sources. However, this is disputable, as Nigerian Pidgin may have more speakers. (Full article...)

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...that Hurricane Gordon was a Category 1 hurricane that killed 1,122 people in Haiti in 1994 and that the hurricane name was not retired by the World Meteorological Organization?
...that the African-American dancer Lavinia Williams gave up ballet stardom in the United States to spend decades developing national schools of Caribbean traditional dance in Haiti, Guyana, and the Bahamas?
...that the sailors of the Santa María shipwrecked in Haiti were infected by the first reported cases of tungiasis, a disease caused by burrowing fleas?

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The cross on Morne Jean, above Cap-Haïtien.

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Image 1François Duvalier in 1968 (from History of Haiti)
Image 2American Marines in 1915 defending the entrance gate in Cap-Haïten (from History of Haiti)
Image 3Dumarsais Estimé (from History of Haiti)
Image 4Sténio Vincent (from History of Haiti)
Image 5Fabre Geffrard (from History of Haiti)
Image 6Staff of the German legation and the Hamburg-Amerika Line agency at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1900. The agency was involved in the staffing and management of the legation. German nationals were comparatively numerous in Haiti and heavily involved in the Haitian economy until World War I. (from History of Haiti)
Image 7Jean-Claude and Michèle Duvalier en route to the airport to flee the country, 7 February 1986 (from History of Haiti)
Image 8The ruins of the Sans-Souci Palace, severely damaged in the 1842 earthquake and never rebuilt (from History of Haiti)
Image 9Kanaval in Jacmel Haiti 2014 03 (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 10U.S. Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince on 9 March 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 11Christopher Columbus landing on the island of Hispaniola in 1492. (from History of Haiti)
Image 12"Burning of the Plaine du Cap – Massacre of whites by the blacks". On 22 August 1791, slaves set fire to plantations, torched cities, and massacred the white population. (from History of Haiti)
Image 13Battle for Santo Domingo, by January Suchodolski (1845) (from History of Haiti)
Image 14"Revenge taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties practiced on them by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 15Flamingo tongue on a purple sea fan from Arcadin Islands, Haiti. This sea snail is found living on various species of soft corals and sea fans. (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 16Bread market in St. Michel, 1928–1929 (from History of Haiti)
Image 17Bishop's House in Cap-Haitien, 1907 (from History of Haiti)
Image 18Haitian Folk Singer Manno Charlemagne (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 19Jean-Pierre Boyer (from History of Haiti)
Image 20Opening of the mausoleum of Pétion and Dessalines in 1926 (from History of Haiti)
Image 21Lysius Salomon (from History of Haiti)
Image 22Fishing village in Haiti, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 23Élie Lescot (from History of Haiti)
Image 24A sugar mill in Haiti (L'Homme et la Terre by Élisée Reclus, 1830–1905) (from History of Haiti)
Image 25The National Palace burned down during the revolt against Salnave in 1868 (from History of Haiti)
Image 26The Kingdom of Haiti in the North and the Republic of Haiti in the South (from History of Haiti)
Image 27Charles Rivière-Hérard (from History of Haiti)
Image 28Port-au-Prince and surroundings at the start of the 19th century (from History of Haiti)
Image 29U.S. Coast Guard intercepting Haitian refugees, 1998 (from History of Haiti)
Image 30René Préval (from History of Haiti)
Image 31Market street in Port-au-Prince, 1996 (from History of Haiti)
Image 32Large portions of the National Palace collapsed (from History of Haiti)
Image 33Jovenel Moïse (from History of Haiti)
Image 34The French army led by Le Clerc lands in Cap Français (1802) (from History of Haiti)
Image 35Michel Martelly (from History of Haiti)
Image 36Citadelle Laferrière, built by Henri Christophe, is the largest fortress in the Americas. (from History of Haiti)
Image 37The coronation of Faustin I of Haiti in 1849 (from History of Haiti)
Image 38U.S. troops seizing Port-au-Prince airfield, September 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 39As the unofficial leader of the revolution, Toussaint L'Ouverture is considered the father of Haiti. (from History of Haiti)
Image 40Michel Domingue (from History of Haiti)
Image 41President Jean-Bertrand Aristide returns triumphantly to the National Palace at Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1994 (from History of Haiti)
Image 42Leclerc's veterans storm Ravine-a-Couleuvre (Snake Gully) in 1802. (from History of Haiti)
Image 43Engraving of Cap-Français in 1728 (from History of Haiti)
Image 44Swearing-in ceremony of Haitian Diaspora GwètòDe (Clergy in Vodou) (from Culture of Haiti)
Image 45Provisional President Boniface Alexandre (2004–2006) led the intervention of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti in 2004 (from History of Haiti)
Image 46United States Marines and a Haitian guide patrolling the jungle in 1915 during the Battle of Fort Dipitie (from History of Haiti)
Image 47Paul Magloire (from History of Haiti)
Image 48Marine's base at Cap-Haïtien (from History of Haiti)
Image 49Jean-Jacques Dessalines (from History of Haiti)
Image 502004 Haiti flood (from Environment of Haiti)
Image 51"The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practiced by the French", by Marcus Rainsford, 1805 (from History of Haiti)
Image 52The battle of Santo Domingo (1806) painted by Nicholas Pocock in 1808 (from History of Haiti)

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