Fort Liberté
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Coordinates: 19 ° 40 ′ N , 71 ° 50 ′ W Fort-Liberté on the map of Haiti
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 Haiti
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| department | North-Est | |
| Residents | 30,110 (2003) | |
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| height | 0 m | |
| Waters | Caribbean Sea | |
| Time zone | UTC -5 | |
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Fort-Liberté , Creole. Fòlibète , is the administrative capital of the Nord-Est department in Haiti . It is also the capital of an arrondissement of the same name.
The city, eight kilometers west of the border with the Dominican Republic in the south of a bay, has a small port. Besides fishing, the economic activity consists in the cultivation of sugar cane , mangoes and citrus fruits .
history
The settlement was founded in 1578 by Spaniards who called it Bayaha . The French later called it Fort-Dauphin . It was named Fort-Royal under the rule of Henri Christophe , when King Henry I ruled North Haiti. After his death in 1820, the place was renamed again, since then it has been called Fort-Liberté.
Personalities
- The French statesman Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc was born in Fort Dauphin .
- In September 1892 José Martí visited Fort-Liberté on his way to the Cuban War of Independence .
literature
- Nyll Calixte: Fort-Liberté d′hier et d′aujourd′hui. Les réelles et apparentes causes de ses misères . Imprimerie de l′État, Port-au-Prince 1960.
- Joseph Sony Jean: La biography d'un paysage. Étude sur les transformations de longue durée du paysage culturel de la region de Fort-Liberté, Haiti . Sidestone Press, Leiden 2019. ISBN 978-90-8890-841-5 .
Web links
Commons : Fort-Liberté - collection of images, videos and audio files
