Haiti - Makayla Lee

Haiti can be found in the Caribbean between Cuba and Puerto Rico and its around 10,714 sq miles. Haiti is typically known for the crazy natural disaster phenomenon that has happened in the past, it has a lot of seismic activity because of where it’s located. It has a lot of valleys and islands. Haiti shares an island with the Dominican Republic called “Hispaniola '' which is only like 70 or so miles away from Miami, Florida. It also has rugged mountains too. The climate in Haiti is typically warm and humid and about 11,541,685 people live there.

The average person in Haiti lives till around 62 and most of Haiti's people are 25 years old, at least 54% of the people are 25 years old and about 4,126,200 of the people there are under the age of 15. The ethnic groups of Haiti consist of mostly the descendants of Black African Slaves and there are more women in Haiti than men. The women to men ratio of Haiti is something like 99 mean to every 100 women. I thought that the people of Haiti can speak French but like in most other countries they have their own language that most of the people are all pretty fluent in, Creole. I also found out they speak Haitian French which I assume is much like Normal French with a variation on some words.

So some of the basic history of Haiti  would be that it was first colonized by Christopher Columbus where he named it  “La Isla Española”. Haiti was technically both colonized by the Spanish and the French and even the U.S at some point. The U.S had occupied Haiti back in the 1900s for 2 decades. Haiti is also the only free republic born of a successful slave rebellion. Religion in Haiti consists of mostly catholic believers but there are also 15% Protestant believers as well. Haiti could use help with things like establishing safe drinking water, more commerce, food, health and education.