Decree of 1983 declaring the areas around Morne La Visite and Pic Macaya Natural National Parks

The decree published in Le Moniteur No. 41 of Thursday 23 June 1983 under Jean-Claude Duvalier.

The preamble assembles the legal chain: the law of 8 July 1921 on public utility recognition, the law of 3 February 1926 on reserved national forests, the organic law of 7 April 1958 creating and organising the agriculture department, the law of 23 April 1940 on the classification of historic monuments, the decree of 29 March 1979 creating the Institut de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine National, the law of 19 September 1982 on regionalisation, the law of 6 September 1982 on the standardisation of structures, the decree of 22 October 1982 creating the Musée Panthéon National Haïtien and the decree of 18 March 1968 on national parks and natural sites.

La Visite and Macaya hold most of what remains of Haiti's montane broadleaf and pine forest and the highest concentration of endemic species in the country, and both catchments feed rivers that supply the southern plains. The corpus holds the 1968 base decree, the 1937 Forêt des Pins designation and the 2017 protected-area arrêtés, so the designation history of the Massif de la Selle can be read across sixty years.