Haiti
Ouest
Port-au-Prince Arrondissement

Bel Air

Bel Air 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.
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  • Type: Suburb
  • Description: neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • Also known as: “Bel Air, Haiti”, “Bele”, and “Bèlè”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Port-au-Prince Cathedral and Haiti National Palace.

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.

Ruins
Photo: mweriksson, CC BY 2.0.
The National Palace was the official residence of the president of Haiti, located in the capital , facing Place L'Ouverture near the Champs de Mars.

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 Port-au-Prince and Bois Verna.

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.

Suburb
is a neighborhood of , . It has one of the largest concentration of the historic Haitian gingerbread style houses present.

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. is situated 3 km north of Bel Air.

Bel Air

Latitude
18.54997° or 18° 32′ 60″ north
Longitude
-72.33617° or 72° 20′ 10″ west
Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
77C9GMX7+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 616730335
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
6201208
Wiki­data ID
Q4881708
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Spanish—“Bel Air” goes by many names.
  • Dutch: “Bel Air”
  • French: “Bel Air”
  • French: “Bèlè”
  • Haitian: “Bèlè”
  • Russian: “Бель-Эр”
  • Spanish: “Bel Air”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bel Air”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.