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Lafiteau
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| Country | Haiti |
| Department | Ouest |
| Arrondissement | Arcahaie Arrondissement |
| Commune | Cabaret |
| Time zone | Haiti Standard Time (UTC-5) |
Lafiteau, also called Carrefour Lafiteau, is a small industrial port town, about nine miles north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, in the commune of Cabaret in the Republic of Haiti. It lies to the south of Titanyen. Many supply ships entered this port in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake as part of earthquake relief operations. The road to the port is maintained well after the earthquake, and the port and its jetties also, which suffered damages due to the earthquake, are in continuous process of refurbishing.[1]
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Lafiteau, with an average elevation of 9 metres (30 ft), is 1.3 miles (2.1 km) east-southeast of Ile à Cabrit and 210 metres (690 ft) southwest of the coast.[2][3] Several shoal patches are distributed less than a miles off the coast.[4]
The nearest airport to the port town is the Toussaint Louverture International Airport at Port-au-Prince where Insel Air, American Airways, Air Canada, Air Freight NZ, Air France, Copa, Delta, Spirit, Air Bridge Cargo provide both air cargo and passenger services.[2]
The port is approached from the Port-au-Prince over a well maintained road, Route National 1 (100).
The jetty at Lafiteau is 21 metres (69 ft) in length and is in the shape of a “T”. The minimum depth available alongside the jetty is 8.5 metres (28 ft). At the head of the jetty, there are mooring buoys, one on the NW and two on SE. Range lights guide the vessels along the approach channel where the minimum draft of water is said to be 14 metres (46 ft).[3]
The economy of the port town is supported by notable processing plants, including the Caribbean Mills Processing Plant and the Grain Processing Plant.[5] In 2009, Les Moulins d'Haiti, a wheat flour mill, sold more than 170,000 metric tons of wheat flour.[6]
The Hospital Centre of the Haitian Academy is located in Lafiteau. In October 2010, news reports stated there were two cholera-related deaths in Lafiteau.[7]
Victims of the Haiti presidents "Papa Doc" Duvaliers and "Baby Doc" Duvalier were buried in mass graves in Lafiteau, as were 100,000 of the Port-au-Prince earthquake victims in 2010.[8]