Cape-Haitian

Cape-Haitian , often called the Cape ( Okap or Kapayisyen in Creole Haitian) is a town of 500.000 inhabitants on the septentrional coast of Haiti. It is the chief town of the department of the Northern . For the French colonial period, the city was known under the name of Cape-French. The Cape was the capital of the colony of Saint-Domingue at the time of the Haitian Révolution. With the name of Cape-Henri, it served like the capital of the king Henri I {{er}} (Henri Christophe), which made build the palate of Without Souci and the citadel of the Tool bag on the mountains in the south of the city.

Archbishop's palace

• Archdiocese of the Cape-Haitian
• Notre-Dame Cathedral of the Assumption of the Cape-Haitian

Economy

Cape-Haitian has an airport (code AITA: CAPE).

External bonds

• The Louverture Project: Haitian Cape

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