Gressier (; ) is a
commune in the
Port-au-Prince Arrondissement
Port-au-Prince () is an arrondissement in the Ouest department of Haiti. It had 2,109,516 inhabitants at the 2003 Census which was estimated to have risen to 2,759,991 in 2015 in an area of 735.78 sq km (284.09 sq mi). Postal codes in the Port- ...
, in the
Ouest Ouest (French for west) may refer to:
*Ouest (department), Haiti
*Ouest Department (Ivory Coast), defunct administrative subdivision of Ivory Coast
* Ouest Province, Cameroon
* Ouest Province, Rwanda
*Ouest-France, a French newspaper
*West France ( ...
department of
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...
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It has 25,947 inhabitants.
According to the CAGH – Committee for the Advancement of Gressier, Gressier has a population of about 75,000. It is located approximately 12.5miles west of Port-au-Prince. With a total land area of 41.11 square miles, it is bordered on the north by the Gulf of La Gonâve. On the east, Gressier is bordered by the town of Carrefour, on the south by the Momance River, and on the west by the town of Leôgane. It has three main rural sections: Morne à Bateau, Morne à Chandelle, and Petit Boucan.
2010 7.0 earthquake
A
UN assessment team estimated that 40 to 50 per cent of the buildings in Gressier were destroyed in the
12 January 2010 earthquake. The "court of the peace" building was destroyed in the tremblor.
[ Metropole Haiti]
"Le système judiciaire paralysé trois semaines après le séisme"
, LLM, 5 February 2010 (accessed 6 February 2010)
ROKENGCOY, South Korea Engineering Company, has been in Gressier since February 2010 to help with demolition and reconstruction, also with medical assistance.
References
External links
* Reuters
26 February 2010
Populated places in Ouest (department)
Communes of Haiti
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