About this picture: Cap-Haitian colonial period
Cap-Haitian is the second city in Haiti.
It is of about 190, 000 people and located on the north coast of Haiti.
Previously, named as Cap-Français and Cap-Henri, it was an important city during the colonial period and was the first capital of the Kingdom of Northern Haiti under King Henri Christophe.
The central area of the city is located between the Bay of Cap-Haitian to the east, and nearby mountainsides to the west, which are increasingly dominated by flimsy urban slums.
The streets are generally narrow and arranged in grids.
As a legacy of the U.S. occupation of Haiti from 1915–1934, Cap-Haitien's north-south streets were renamed as single letters (beginning with Rue A, a major avenue), and its east-west streets with numbers.
This system breaks down outside of the central city, which is itself dominated by numerous markets, churches, and low-rise apartment buildings
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