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Carrefour, Haiti

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Municipality in Ouest, Haiti
Carrefour Kafou
Municipality
Country Haiti
DepartmentOuest
ArrondissementPort-au-Prince
Area
 • Total164.9 km (63.7 sq mi)
Elevation39 m (128 ft)
Population
 • Total373,916
 • Density2,267.1/km (5,872/sq mi)

Carrefour (Template:Lang-ht) is a poor district in the Ouest Department of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Its population is 408,000.The name means intersection. The neighborhood is very poor and ill-serviced however as of recently, small-scale construction has gone on in the area along with street renovations. A slum called Feuilles of Carrefour is notorious for the illegal execution of eleven young men that took place there in 1999.

Carrefour was not always a poor district outside of downtown Port-au-Prince. Before the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier and before all the political unrest that has swallowed the country, it was a haven for tourists. Carrefour and the country as a whole was dealt a death blow when the last embargo was imposed on it by the United Sates to enforce the return of than deposed President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

References

  1. Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI)
  2. Carrefour, Haiti Travel Guide, Blogs, Map at travelpost.com
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18°32′04″N 72°24′34″W / 18.53444°N 72.40944°W / 18.53444; -72.40944

This is not carrefour, please correct your statements. Carrefour feuille and Carrefour are two different places

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