Quartier-Morin (; ) is a
commune in the
Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement
Cap-Haïtien () is an arrondissement in the Nord department of Haiti and is the second-most important city of the country. It is known as the historical and tourism capital of the country. Cap-Haïtien was founded in 1670 by the French settler ...
, in the
Nord
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Acronyms
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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 ...
. It has 19,241 inhabitants. General Eugene Francois Magloire was born here in 1840 and his son The former president
Paul Eugene Magloire was born here in 1907. Emerante de Pradine wrote a song to talk about how well the woman of Quartier Morin dance voodoo. The song name was Neges Katye Morin.
Economic
The local economy is based on the cultivation of cocoa, tobacco, sugar cane with distilleries and the distillation of essential oil.
References
Populated places in Nord (Haitian department)
Communes of Haiti
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