Located in the worst and most polluted part of Port au Prince is a 27 square mile slum, crowded with close to a million people living in squalor conditions. The reason the area is called Cite Soleil (French for Sun City) is because it is only a city when the sun shines. Few of the buildings have roofs made of anything other than plastic and cardboard, and when it rains, the shacks are flooded with water and run off from the open sewers. Dust, stench and heat hammer the senses.
Winding through the shacks and garbage fields is a small canal 8 feet wide, 2 feet deep, and pitch black.
posted by Chuck In Pensacola at 12:41 PM
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