Petionville
Coordinates: 18 ° 31 ′ N , 72 ° 17 ′ W
Pétionville is a suburb of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince . In 2003 it had a population of 283,052. The city got its name from Alexandre Sabès Pétion (1770-1818), a general who was also President of Haiti . It is located about six kilometers east of the capital on the edge of a green range of hills.
In the 18th and 19th centuries, Pétionville was best known for its charcoal industry and coffee growing . Today the city is best known for tourism, the associated nightlife and its residential complexes. It is one of the wealthiest places in all of Haiti, home to upper-class families (particularly: Brandt, Mevs, Accra, Bigio, Behrmann and Madsen), diplomats, business people and the middle class of the Port-au-Prince region who work in the capital drives. Pétionville is considered to be pretty safe, unlike many other cities in Haiti.
The city gained international fame in November 2008 when a school collapsed due to construction errors and up to 700 children and teachers were buried, killing at least 82 of them.
Petionville was largely spared from the earthquake on January 12, 2010 .
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- ↑ Census of the Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI), August 7, 2003
- ↑ Haiti economic elite families Adapting to new competition. Retrieved April 14, 2020 (English).
- ↑ School in Haiti collapsed - at least 80 dead ( Memento from December 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Haitian elite were spared the earthquake. In: heise online. January 18, 2010, accessed April 14, 2020 .
- ^ Haiti's elite spared from much of the devastation . January 18, 2010, ISSN 0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed April 14, 2020]).