Phaeton, Haiti Explained

Official Name:Phaeton
Settlement Type:Town
Pushpin Map:Haiti
Pushpin Label Position:left
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Haiti
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Haiti
Subdivision Type1:Department
Subdivision Name1:Nord-Est
Subdivision Type2:Arrondissement
Subdivision Name2:Fort-Liberté
Population As Of:7 August 2003
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:2,500
Timezone Dst:(UTC -5.0)
Coordinates:19.6742°N -71.8972°W
Elevation M:1

Phaeton (Haitian; Haitian Creole: Fayeton) is a town in the Fort-Liberté Arrondissement, in the Nord-Est department of Haiti. It is an old factory town, like its neighbor, Derac, as part of the old Dauphin Plantation residential area. When the plantation still operated (growing sisal, the town had a railroad route and a power plant that powered the city of Fort-Liberté, though poorly, until the 1980s. Phaeton is approximately 134 km / 83 mi from Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince. It is close to the border of the Dominican Republic.

Transportation

Phaeton is served by an airport (Phaeton Airfield) which has charter flights from Port-au-Prince

Notes and References

  1. Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI)