Discover Central Plateau in Haiti

August 6, 2014 8:15 PM

The "Central Plateau" occupies about 390 square km (150 square miles) area in an interior basin in Haiti and its adjacent San Juan Valley in the Dominican Republic. The Central Plateau which is also known as the Centre department, extends along both sides of the Guayamouc River, south of the Massif du Nord. It runs about eighty five kilometers from southeast to northwest and is thirty kilometers wide. The plateau has an average elevation of 300 meters or 1,000 feet with an access through difficult spiral roads. Central Plateau is bounded by two minor mountain ranges to the south and west by Noires and Cahos Mountains respectively. The tributaries of the Artibonite River, the longest in the island with approximate 280 km length, flow eastward and southward through Haiti's Central Plateau to a point near the Dominican border before joining the main river to flow westward.

Plateau Central, a presentation of Paster Joel and La Bonne Nouvelle

Haiti's Central Plateau, is the poorest country of the Western Hemisphere. Once it used to be one of France's richest colonies and the first black republic to achieve independence. Today, it struggles against its exhausted natural resources and stands out as poor, dry and isolated. Hundreds have died on their journey to settle in the U.S. The region as a part of vulnerable Haitian government policies and programs has remained subject for decades of contradictory "start-and-stop" policies.

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