Saint-Marc

Saint -Marc is a port city in the department of Artibonite in the north of Haiti. The town lies on the road 1 or 100 about 80 kilometers north-west of the Haitian capital Port -au -Prince. In 2009 lived in Saint -Marc 127 747 inhabitants. In the entire community in 2009 lived more than 242,000 people.

Next to the port - one of the most important in the country - and the churches of Saint- Marc ( Catholic), the Adventist Church and the Baptist church located in Saint -Marc eight schools, the St. Nicolas Hospital, a distillery, a prison, a graveyard, a football and a football field and the Place Publice.

History

The city was founded in 1695 by the French in the neighborhood of an ancient settlement of the Taíno. 1905 built the Compagnie Nationale a 100 km long railway line between Port -au -Prince and Saint -Marc.

In 2004 it came to Haiti to serious clashes between opponents of the government and the security forces. In February 2004, to have been killed in Saint -Marc during the riots 50 opposition. Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune, the former was to have, therefore, ordered the massacre in Saint -Marc in June 2004 on charges, was arrested.

Sons and daughters

Artibonite Department Port-au-Prince
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