Travel Guide Presqu’île Des Baradères

A very wild and enclosed area due to the surrounding wetlands.Baradères is a pretty small town in a bowl on the coast. We grow sugar cane all year round and rice in rainy season. Floods are frequent, which is why most houses are on the floor. It's very original for Haiti to observe these wooden houses on 2 or 3 levels. The city has a beautiful colonial style church and a large place, but most of the buildings, wooden, are faded and in poor condition, giving the city a small air of "ghost city". However, she had known her hours of glory when coffee was a flagship export product for Haiti, from the Colonial era until the years 1970-1980. Then the decline in production started, falling together with the collapse of market prices that became globalized. The peasants in the area then retreated to the culture of mazombelle (tarot), an endemic tuber very popular throughout the country for its nutritional qualities and which grows well in marshy soils such as those surrounding the commune of Baradères. Unfortunately, a few years ago, a bacterium attacked the mazombelle leaves, and decimated this local culture. Food insecurity is now chronic and the only alternative for the peasant population is the culture of the storm rice. in an archaic way, yields are low and they sell poorly on markets, at a lower price than American imported rice (diri Miami in Creole). As for trade with the capital, they could be flourishing thanks to the imposing wharf built in the 1980 s on the coast 3 km from the city. However, the lack of a bridge to climb the river around the city prevents it from gaining access by road and the development of maritime trade, which is limited to the supply of the charcoal capital. The same, whose production increases deforestation, promotes erosion and ultimately causes flooding, which is periodically affected by the city…