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Belladère
Beladè
Belladère is located in Haiti
Belladère
Belladère
Location in Haiti
Coordinates: 18°52′0″N 71°46′0″W / 18.86667°N 71.76667°W / 18.86667; -71.76667
Country Haiti
Department Centre
Arrondissement Lascahobas
Dominican cession to Haiti1936
Elevation
400 m (1,300 ft)
Population
 (7 August 2003) [1]
 • Total60,239

Belladère ( Haitian Creole: Beladè, Spanish: Veladero) is a commune in the Lascahobas Arrondissement, inside the Centre department of Haiti. Its border crossing to the Dominican town Comendador is one of the four chief land crossings to the Dominican Republic.

It belonged to the Dominican Republic until 1936, when Dominican and Haitian leaders agreed to a boundary change in favor of Haiti, as the Haitian government commanded by Sténio Vincent wanted to move the border eastward while the Dominican regime under Rafael Trujillo saw the relinquish of the territory (despite some domestic opposition) as a de-Haitianization of the country, as that area had experienced a significant Haitian settlement in the previous decades, bolster by both Haiti's population explosion and scarcity of wastelands, with ethnic Dominicans becoming a minority in Belladère (then Veladero) and its surrounding areas.

References

  1. ^ Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique (IHSI)