Urban Development in Haiti - Ouanaminthe Study
- Built-up land grew 97.3 percent between 2007 and 2020.
- The yearly expansion rate rose 83.6 percent between periods, from 0.24 to 0.43 square kilometers, the only such acceleration among the study areas.
- 2 percent of expansion lay south of the RN-6, but the northern sectors' share rose from 34.6 to 46.3 percent in the second period.
- Ouanaminthe had 106,129 inhabitants in 2015, 66.8 percent urban, with the urban population growing 3.6 percent a year.
- The commune covers 199.06 square kilometers in five communal sections.
- The Massacre and Canary rivers flood built areas near their banks.
Financed by the European Union and prepared with CIAT, the file maps the growth of Ouanaminthe from 2007 to 2020 in two periods. The commune covers 199.06 square kilometers in five communal sections, and in 2015 it had 106,129 inhabitants, 66.8 percent of them urban, with 22,581 people per square kilometer in the 3.14 square kilometer city. The study area is cut into five sectors along the RN-6 and the RD-602. Built-up land grew 97.3 percent, and the expansion rate rose from 0.24 to 0.43 square kilometers a year, the only study area in the series with so sharp an acceleration. Growth was stronger south of the RN-6, 64.2 percent of the total, but the northern share rose from 34.6 to 46.3 percent in the second period. The text also covers flooding on the Massacre and Canary rivers.
How to cite
Interministerial Committee for Territorial Planning (CIAT); European Union; Government of Haiti, 2020, Urban Development in Haiti - Ouanaminthe Study, accessed via HaitiDocs, https://www.haitidocs.org/doc/ciat-2020-urban-development