Chardonnières

Chardonnières is a commune and a chief town of district of the department of the South in Haiti. Its inhabitants are Chardonnésiens and of Chardonnésiennes (pronounce kardonezyen/kardonezyèn).

The employers' Festival takes place on July 26th (the Holy-Anne), the day of beach, on July 27th (PRAMA). Its colors are the green and the white.

Geography

This small town is limited to the South and the West by the Caribbean Sea, to the East by the commune of Port-with-Pepper of the south and to North by the mountains of the Massif of the Hood. The peak Macaya, one of the highest tops of Haiti with approximately 2.400 meters, is found inside the geographical limits of the commune of Chardonnières.

Chardonnières is located at approximately 270 kilometers of the capital, Port-au-Prince and with 72 kilometers of the Cayes, chief town of the department of the South.

Chardonnières resembles a square affixed against the Caribbean Sea. It is at least the impression which the two arms of the sea give which, according to an angle of approximately 90 degrees, borders, to the South and the West, the strip of land on which the village is built.

History

According to any probability, after having existed under another name of Spanish origin or Indian the small town would have been baptized Chardonnières by the Boucanier S or the Flibustier S. However, until about 1830, one especially spoke about Chardonnière .

Foot-note: - Chardonnières is the first grape producer in Haiti. The little story teaches us that, from the time of the colony, the grape of Chardonnières went to the table of kings de France. Today, Chardonnésiens use the grape to express their great generosity and their hospitality without terminal.

See too

the Southern part

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