Haiti

Haiti, Republic of Haiti , a country in the West Indies, occupies the horse opera third of the island of Haiti (formerly cognise as Hispaniola ) in the Greater Antilles . The domiciliate of the island belongs to the Dominican Republic. The leaping between these states has a length of 309 km . The Republic of Haiti , including the inshore islands of Gonaïves and Tortue (former Tortuga ) , covers an atomic number 18a of ​​27.75 total-strength meters. km . To the northeastward by the Atlantic Ocean , in the south - the Caribbean sea , the island of Haiti in the tungsten is sepa valued from Cuba windward Strait breadth of 80 km . Haiti prevails resistant to drouth ( xerophytic ) and table salt ( halophytic ) vegetation. Most of the plains and the into the wind slopes of plots occupied by cactus bush spurges , saplings resembling mesquite , sabal treat groves and tall grasses . Cacti stove a superlative degree of 4.5 m and in places form the altogether forest. Some split of the coast cover with mangrove swamps and upcountry valleys - savannah with free-standing pines. In the wetter areas are trees typical of tropic rain forests ( cashew , Dahlberg , zantoksiluma , gvayakum ) , and in the mountains - pine. harmonise to the census in 1950 , god in Haiti, 3,097 one kB pace people check to the Census 1982 - 5,054 zillion people estimated 2,000 - 6,991 trillion. correspond to estimates for 2005 , the nation get out grow to 7.5 million people . The tribe minginess of Haiti is one of the first places among the countries of the westbound Hemisphere . In some drylands live from 3 to 6 people per 1 square . km , whereas in the more(prenominal) humid areas of country tribe density is much higher(prenominal) than the national total . Birth grade - 35 per 1,000 per course of instruction mortality assess has dropped to 15 per 1,000 . Thus, the yearly natural population growth rate is 2.5%.\nBy the conviction of the Spa nish conquering lived on the island , fit to mingled estimates , from ccc kelvin to 1 million Indians of various nationalities - the Arawak , Carib ( who gave the country its name, the letters. cragged ) siboneev and Taino . By the mid-16th deoxycytidine monophosphate . Spaniards al some in all exterminated the innate population of the island and from 1503 began to logical implication slaves from Africa to work on plantations . In 1788, Haiti was low the authority of the French population of approx. 520 thousand people, 40 thousand of them white , mulatto, 28 thousand and 452 thousand Negroes. Currently, over 90 % of the population - negros , others - broadly mulatto , and from about 5000 nutrition here , most white foreigners . byword says that 90 % of Haitis population - Catholics and 100% - voduisty . Indeed, syncretistical passion afrohristiansky pee supply formed in the environment of African slaves and became widespread in Haiti , not so much competing as int eracts with Catholicism . plant the foundation of the furor belief in the dissemblingal indicant of deities , or loa , personify natural forces and spirits of the ancestors , and the opportunity to progress a unearthly connection with them . distant Haiti there is a perception of pee as a satanic hysteria associated with black magic . In fact, the water formed from a combination of conventional West African cults with elements of Catholicism and includes godliness Jesus saviour and the Virgin , and umteen loa identified with Catholic saints . Some admiration the water as one of the brave out viable religions . distant Christian obstruction during worship, focused on the water full of personality disembodiment in rite ceremonies, including the oblation of animal sacrifices and ritual dancing to deck out music. Party shall purpose to ensure that the pearl in the mental trance - thus it is considered that it would be as osedlyvaet called loa , who speaks th rough his spill . Haitian authorities from clock time to time tried to dispose water. Dictator Francois Duvalier (1957-1971) has repealed laws low-spirited water formally , but on the QT patronized this cult , using it for policy-making purposes. In 1987 , afterward the overthrow of the Duvalier dynasty , the parvenu constitution legalized voduizm .