The North-West (department of Haiti)

The department of the North-western (Creole Haitian: Nòdwès ) is one of the nine departments of Haiti. Its surface is of 2.176 km ² and the population was of 488.500 inhabitants in 2002. Port-of-Peace is the chief town.

Located at the Passage-of-Wind which divides Haiti of Cuba, the North-West attracts the strategic interest of Christophe Colomb (which lands here in 1492) and of the flibustiers French which settle here at the 17th century and thus found the French colony of Saint-Domingue. During his history, Mole-Saint-Nicholas is disputed by the Britanniques, the French, the American and obviously the Haitians themselves. The North-West is divided into three districts:

  1. Mole-Saint-Nicolas

  2. Port-of-Peace
  3. Saint-Louis-of-North

With the exceptions of the island of the Tortoise and coastal region near Port-of-Peace, the North-West is arid. Formerly exporting city of Banana S and the Coffee, Port-of-Peace is currently a warehouse for the importation of goods smugglings since Miami.

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