La Saline

La Saline is a suburb in , . La Saline is situated nearby to the suburb , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port-au-Prince Cathedral and Marché en Fer.

Church
Photo: Rabanus Flavus, Public domain.
The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, often called , was a cathedral in , . Built between 1884 and 1914, it was dedicated on December 13, 1928, and became the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.

Marketplace
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
or Marché de Fer also known as the Marché Hyppolite and the Marché Vallières is a public market in ’s capital, Port‑au‑Prince. It was damaged by fire in 2008 and destroyed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake, but was restored.

Library
Photo: Lea-Kim, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is Haiti's legal deposit library, with a collection of approximately 26,000 volumes. It is located in the capital, and is the principal library of the city. The current head of the library is Dangelo Neard.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bel Air and Port-au-Prince.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of , . It is a slum area of the city and suffers from poverty. Crime is widespread, and kidnappings and killings have created panic among the local population.

Photo: ויקיג’אנקי, Public domain.
is the capital and most populous city of . The city's population was estimated at 1,200,000 in 2022 with the metropolitan area estimated at a population of 2,618,894.

Town
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an extremely impoverished and densely populated commune located in the metropolitan area in . originally developed as a shanty town and grew to an estimated 200,000 to 400,000 residents, the majority of whom live in extreme poverty.

La Saline

Latitude
18.55917° or 18° 33′ 33″ north
Longitude
-72.34254° or 72° 20′ 33″ west
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
77C9HM54+MX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 613013099
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
3722596
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