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Commune in Nord-Ouest, Haiti

Port-de-Paix

Port-de-Paix is a commune and the capital of the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti on the Atlantic coast.

Port-de-Paix
Port-de-Paix · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Port-de-Paix is a commune and the capital of the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti on the Atlantic coast. It has a population of 462,000. Port-de-Paix used to be a large exporter of bananas and coffee.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Port-de-Paix

Airports
Cap Haitien (CAP), 70 km · Toussaint Louverture (PAP), 161 km · Providenciales (PLS), 212 km
Stations
Port-de-Paix Airport, 2.2 km
  • Cap Haitien → Port-de-Paix
    69 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · $8–12
  • Port-au-Prince → Port-de-Paix
    164 km · quickest by road, 4h 54m · $18–25
  • Santiago → Port-de-Paix
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Port-de-Paix

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Port-de-Paix. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf you want to visit the island on a day trip, go as early as possible.

From Wikivoyage: Tortuga (Haiti), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-11.

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    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    802 km
  2. 02
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  3. 03
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    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,348 km

If you know how people move in Port-de-Paix – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.