Quartier-Morin Explained

Official Name:Quartier-Morin
Native Name:Katye Moren
Settlement Type:Commune
Pushpin Map:Haiti
Pushpin Label Position:top
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Haiti
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name:Haiti
Subdivision Type1:Department
Subdivision Name1:Nord
Subdivision Type2:Arrondissement
Subdivision Name2:Cap-Haïtien
Population As Of:7 August 2003
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:19,241
Coordinates:19.7°N -72.15°W
Elevation M:8

Quartier-Morin (Haitian; Haitian Creole: Katye Moren) is a commune in the Cap-Haïtien Arrondissement, in the Nord department of Haiti. It has 19,241 inhabitants. General Eugene Francois Magloire was born here in 1840 and his son The former president Paul Eugene Magloire was born here in 1907. Emerante de Pradine wrote a song to talk about how well the woman of Quartier Morin dance voodoo. The song name was Neges Katye Morin.

Economic

The local economy is based on the cultivation of cocoa, tobacco, sugar cane with distilleries and the distillation of essential oil.

Notes and References

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