Boucan-Carré (; ) is a commune in the

Mirebalais Arrondissement Mirebalais (; ) is an arrondissement in the Centre department of Haiti. As of 2015, the population was 192,852 inhabitants. Postal codes in the Mirebalais Arrondissement start with the number 52. The arrondissement consists of the following comm ...

, in the

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department of

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. It has 56,028 inhabitants in 2015.

Geography

Boucan-Carré is a geographic expression is a huge area of land, most of which is covered in mountains and deep valleys. Agriculture and the production of charcoal made from cutting down trees are the primary ways to get by for the locals. The

Boucan-Carré River Boucan-Carré (; ) is a List of communes of Haiti, commune in the Mirebalais Arrondissement, in the Centre (department), Centre Departments of Haiti, department of Haiti. It has 56,028 inhabitants in 2015. Geography Boucan-Carré is a geographic ...

cuts through the center of the town of Chambeau.

Economy

Since the destructive

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that struck the Port-au-Prince area in January 2010, many people are returning to family from that city which is causing further strain on the people and land. Clean water is still hard to come by and everything remains very expensive due to devaluation of the Haitian gourde and the extreme stress on the economy in general. All goods are expensive the further away you get from Port-au-Prince. All of rural Haiti is in flux and is experiencing a deep strain brought on by the earthquake.

Infrastructures

Boucan-Carré has seen some massive changes in the early 21st century, with a new primary school completed in 2005, and a secondary school completed in November 2012, and a clinic that has grown into a fully functioning hospital which is supported by

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's organization, Partners In Health (known as

Zanmi Lasante Zanmi Lasante is a sister organization to the Boston-based Partners In Health that operates out of Cange in the central plateau of Haiti. The name, ''Zanmi Lasante'', means ''Partners In Health'' in Haitian Creole. It was built in 1985 to treat p ...

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) based out of

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. The two schools, a church, and a hospital within Boucan-Carré are supported by the Haiti Outreach Program in Knoxville, Tennessee that hosts its annual '' Give Haiti Hope''.

Roads

The UN has made substantial improvements to the roads leading to the area from Port-au-Prince airport (PAP) so that what used to take 4.5 hours to go 45 miles back in 2004, now takes only two hours to arrive in Chambeau.

Telecommunications

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built a large Cellular Telephone Repeater Tower in the commune in about 2008, as locals can be seen riding donkeys while talking on cell phones.

References

Populated places in Centre (department) Communes of Haiti {{Haiti-geo-stub