Official Name: | Casale |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Haiti |
Pushpin Label Position: | right |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Haiti[1] |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Haiti |
Subdivision Type1: | Department |
Subdivision Name1: | Ouest |
Subdivision Type2: | Arrondissement |
Subdivision Name2: | Arcahaie |
Coordinates: | 18.799°N -72.3854°W |
Elevation M: | 197 |
Casale (also Cazale or Cazales) is a village in the Cabaret commune in the Arcahaie Arrondissement, in the Ouest department of Haiti.
It is located in a mountainous region around 30km (20miles) from Port-au-Prince, the capital. It is the main population center of the Polish community in Haiti, called La Pologne (Poland). The name Cazale may have originated as kay Zalewski, meaning "home of Zalewski" (a popular Polish surname). The village is populated by descendants of Polish soldiers sent by Napoleon in 1802.[2] [3]