Anse A Galets

Anse-à-Galets is a coastal city in the La Gonâve Arrondissement, part of Ouest Department, Haiti.

Anse-à-Galets was founded in 1964 and raised to the rank of commune in 1987. It has six communal sections. The dominant relief of its six communal sections is the hill and that of the city is the plain.

The climate of the commune is normal. Its inhabitants are called Ansois. The population of the commune of Anse-à-Galets was estimated at 60,000 inhabitants. For an area of 150 sq mi (389.69 km2), its density was estimated at 60 per mi2 (157 inhabitants/km2).

Anse-à-Galets is situated on the northeastern coastal area of La Gonâve Island.

Anse-à-Galets is renowned for its immaculate white-sand beaches. Paired with the hot and steamy climate of the island, it is a tourist magnet. Other parts of Anse-à-Galets’s coastline are populated by colonies of large boulders with prominent cliff-faces dripping with abundant vegetation.

Anse-à-Galets’s infrastructure is pretty well-developed by Haitian standards. Several non-government organizations have funded a hospital, town plaza, and orphanage for abandoned children.

Healthcare: The Ministry of Public Health and Population is not represented in the commune of Anse-à-Galets. One hospital, one clinic, and two no-bed health centres were inventoried. five Doctors, six nurses, seventeen Auxiliaries, and four Laboratory technicians form the sanitary technical staff of the establishments listed in the commune.

Transportation: One of the few small towns to have an airport, Anse-à-Galets Airport, its airstrip plays host to charter planes arriving from Port-au-Prince.

In one of the rare exceptions to road transport systems in small towns throughout Haiti, Anse-à-Galets has decent roads, comprised of uncemented gravel. This points out the difference between accessible and inaccessible road surfaces as encouraging, or discouraging NGOs to come and offer their services to build and strengthen town infrastructures. In addition, the town’s airstrip, able to receive charter flights from Port-au-Prince, also makes a difference in the amount of economic aid the town receives.

In contradistinction, Gonâve, with no negotiable roadways or airstrip, has not been able to move forward with plans to create a tourist destination, despite a planning committee’s commitment to the project.

Education: The Ministry of National Education for Youth and Sports is represented in the commune of Anse-à-Galets by an inspector and a pedagogical adviser. Four Kindergarten, and thirty-one mostly private primary schools and eleven secondary schools were inventoried in the commune.

Utilities: For water availability, seven sources and twenty-eight public fountains with more than one hundred taps were counted at the commune level. The town of Anse-à-Galets is not electrified.

Security: At the level of administrative and judicial infrastructure, the commune has a peace court, a police station and a Civil state office.

Religion: On the Religion side, 123 churches were counted in the commune. However, the number of Wesleyan churches is proving to be more numerous.

Politics and organizations: As far as political parties and other organizations are concerned, they are distributed: two Popular organizations, one peasant group, six NGOs.

Communications: In the field of Communication, it has a telephone office with four lines available (four cabins). There is no post office. It has one radio station, however it does not have a newspaper/magazine, nor a television station.

Leisure: As for Culture and Leisure, the municipality has no library, no museum, no theatre and cinema. The only sport played is football (soccer). Elsewhere, it is one of the municipalities to have a great stadium in good condition for the practice of this sport. Sixteen Gaguères, on night club, one public square and one cave were also found in the commune.