Fort-Liberté

Fort - Liberté on the map of Haiti

Fort - Liberté, kreol. Fòlibète, is the administrative capital of the department of Nord-Est in Haiti. It is also the capital of an arrondissement of the same name.

It was founded in 1578 by the Spaniards, who called it Bayaha. The French called it later Fort -Dauphin. The name of Fort -Royal, it was under the reign of Henri Christophe, when King Henry I the ruler of northern Haiti.

In Fort Dauphin, the French statesman Vincent -Marie de Viénot Vaublanc was born.

In September 1892 visited José Martí, the leader and hero of the independence movement in Cuba, Cap- Haïtien, Gonaïves and Fort - Liberté on his way in the Cuban War of Independence.

The eight kilometers west of the border with the Dominican Republic in the south of the bay lies the city has a small port. In addition to fishing, there is the economic activity in the cultivation of sugar cane, mangoes and citrus.