Carrefour (Haiti)
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Coordinates: 18 ° 32 ′ N , 72 ° 25 ′ W Carrefour on the map of Haiti
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| Department | Ouest | |
| Residents | 439,581 (2005) | |
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| height | 39 m | |
| Waters | Caribbean | |
| Time zone | UTC -5 | |
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Carrefour is the second largest city in Haiti on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola . The city has 439,581 inhabitants (as of 2005). In 1996 there were 290,204. According to the current administrative structure, it is part of the Arrondissement de Port-au-Prince in the Ouest department .
Together with the capital Port-au-Prince and the cities of Pétionville and Delmas , it forms the so-called Aire Metropolitaine .
Carrefour is a city of great poverty, characterized by child labor (including illegal slavery) and gangs. In 1999, eleven young men were executed in a massacre in the slum of Feuilles de Carrefour .
On January 12, 2010, a major earthquake struck Haiti . According to a spokesman for the World Food Program, half of the buildings in Carrefour were destroyed.
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- ↑ Faces of slavery (eng.) ( Memento of October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Carrefour-Feuilles massacre: 3 years in prison ( Memento from May 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ RP Online: German victim came from Hamburg - 30 Germans still missing in Haiti ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
