Carrefour, Haiti

Infobox Settlement
official_name = Carrefour
native_name = "Kafou"
settlement_type = Municipality
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pushpin_label_position = left
pushpin_map_caption = Location in Haiti
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name =
subdivision_type1 = Department
subdivision_name1 = Ouest
subdivision_type2 = Arrondissement
subdivision_name2 = Port-au-Prince
area_total_km2 = 164.9
population_as_of = date|7 August 2003
population_footnotes = ["Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique" (IHSI)]
population_total = 373,916
population_density_km2 = 2267.1
latd=18 |latm=32 |lats=0 |latNS=N
longd=72 |longm=24 |longs=0 |longEW=W
elevation_m = 39

Carrefour ( _ht. Kafou) is a poor district in the Ouest Department of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It's population is 408,000.The word "kafou" means intersection. The neighborhood is very poor and ill-serviced however as of recently, small-scale construction has gone on in the area along with street renovations. A slum called Feuilles of Carrefour is notorious for the illegal execution of eleven young men that took place there in 1999. [ [http://www.travelpost.com/CR/Haiti/Ouest/Carrefour/6543778 Carrefour, Haiti Travel Guide, Blogs, Map] at travelpost.com]

Carrefour was not always a poor district outside of downtown Port-au-Prince. Before the departure of Jean-Claude Duvalier and before all the political unrest that has swallowed the country, it was a haven for tourists. Carrefour and the country as a whole was dealt a death blow when the last embargo was imposed on it by the United Sates to enforce the return of than deposed President Jean Bertrand Aristide.

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