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Port-au-Prince (/ ˌ p ɔːr t oʊ ˈ p r ɪ n s / PORT oh PRINSS; French: [pɔʁ o pʁɛ̃s] ⓘ; Haitian Creole: Pòtoprens, [pɔtopɣɛ̃s]) is the capital and most populous city of Haiti. The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894. [ 3 ]
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It is located about 10 miles outside of downtown Port-au-Prince, and is about a century old. [1] The base is named after Admiral Hammerton Killick of the Haitian Navy , who scuttled his own ship, the Crête-à-Pierrot , a 940-ton screw gunship, by igniting the magazine, and went down with the ship, instead of surrendering to German forces, in ...
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Fort Dimanche is a former prison in Haiti located near La Saline in Port-au-Prince that was notorious for torture and murder during the reign of François Duvalier. It was declared a monument in 1987. [1] The original Fort Dimanche was built by the French when Haiti was a colony prior to 1804 and fell into disrepair.
The St. Jean Bosco massacre took place in Haiti on 11 September At least 13 people [1] (it is impossible to say how many; [2] some sources say 50 [3]) were killed and around 80 wounded in a three-hour assault on the Saint-Jean Bosco church in Port-au-Prince, which saw the church burned down.
Port-au-Prince Bay extends from the Pointe de Trou Forban in the northwest to the Pointe de Cà-lra in the southwest [1] and is about 40 km (25 mi) wide and about 50 km (31 mi) long. The Grise , Bâtarde , Froide , and Momance Rivers as well as the Boucanbrou Canal flow into Port-au-Prince Bay.