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Country
  
Haiti

Time zone
  
Eastern (UTC-5)

Elevation
  
91 m

Local time
  
Thursday 12:42 AM

Department
  
Nippes

Area
  
155.4 km²

Population
  
31,689 (7 Aug 2003)

Baradères

Weather
  
24°C, Wind S at 8 km/h, 82% Humidity

Arrondissements
  
Nippes, Baradères Arrondissement

Barad res en video janvier 2015


Baraderes (Haitian Creole: Baradè) is a commune in the Nippes department in the southwest part of Haiti. The town has a picturesque market square with a large church. There are few shops and no hotels. The area economy is based on subsistence agriculture, although a small association of subsistence farmers, Kafe Devlopman Barade, began exporting coffee to the U.S. in 2008. The town is vulnerable to flooding and is accessible via a rocky dirt road. The road is periodically improved, but remains passable only by lorries or high-clearance, four-wheel-drive vehicles. Baradères is also accessible by boat from Petite Trou de Nippes, but sedimentation has made the Bay of Baradères very shallow in places and difficult to navigate—even by canoe. The river mouth is increasingly being blocked by sediment. This sediment is a result of severe soil erosion upstream. Primary causes of the erosion probably are riverbank scouring during heavy rainstorms, along with deforestation and cropping of hillsides in the Baradères River valley.

Contents

Map of Baraderes, Haiti

Rivi re des barad res haiti


References

Baradères Wikipedia