Camp-Perrin
Kanperen | |
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  Camp-Perrin Location in Haiti | |
| Coordinates: 18°19′0″N 73°52′0″W / 18.31667°N 73.86667°W | |
| Country | Haiti |
| Department | Sud |
| Arrondissement | Les Cayes |
| Mayor | Macius, Fenicile |
| Elevation | 246 m (807 ft) |
| Population (2009)[1] | |
| • Total | 46,000 |
Camp-Perrin (Haitian Creole: Kanperen) is a commune in the Les Cayes Arrondissement, in the Sud department of Haiti. It has 40,962 inhabitants.
The city of Camp-Perrin was created during the eighteenth century when three Frenchmen (Colon de France), the Perrin brothers, arrived with the goal of studying the possibilities of culture of coffee, cotton and indigo, as well as the exploitation of the wood of dye as the wood of campêche in Haiti. They built a camp up the hill; thus the names of the two town districts are Bas-Camp and Haut-Camp (above and below the camp).
The town is sub-divided in three counties known as:
The City of Camp-Perrin has one commercial TV station known as Tele La Brise broadcasting on television CH-28 (Canal-28)[2] and five radio stations transmitting on the FM band:
Most of the radio stations broadcasting from la Ville des Cayes can also be heard in Camp-Perrin: They are Radio Tele 6 Univers, Radio Macaya, Radio Nami Inter, Radio Lumière, Radio Ginen. On the side of Télé La Brise, the following TV station, TNH, TMS, Tele 6 Univers have a partial coverage in Camp-Perrin.
The main resource of the population is the trade of local product such as cacao, yuka, sweet potatoes, beans, corn, oranges, des feuilles de tilleuls, bananas, coffee, cayenne pepper and sugarcane.
