Anse-à-Galets

Anse-à-Galets (Haitian Creole: Ansagalèt) is a commune and city in the La Gonâve Arrondissement, in the Ouest department on Gonâve Island in Haiti, located to the west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. It is the largest commune on the island and has 62,559 inhabitants.

Anse-à-Galets

  • Ansagalèt
Anse-à-Galets
Location in Haiti
Coordinates: 18°50′0″N 72°52′0″W
CountryHaiti
DepartmentOuest
ArrondissementLa Gonâve
Area
  Total372.01 km2 (143.63 sq mi)
Elevation
16 m (52 ft)
Population
 (March, 2015)[1]
  Total62,559
  Density168/km2 (440/sq mi)

The current mayor of the city of Anse-a-Galets is Ernso Louissaint.

Transportation

The commune is served by Anse-à-Galets Airport and a public wharf. The public wharf has daily ferry traffic to the Haitian mainland at the Carries Ferry terminal.

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References

  1. "Mars 2015 Population Totale, Population de 18 ans et Plus Menages et Densites Estimes en 2015" (PDF). Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d’Informatique (IHSI). Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 November 2015. Retrieved 3 June 2017.


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