The second biggest country in the Caribbean, and lying 55 miles east-southeast of Cuba across the Windward Passage, Haïti makes up of the western third of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic. Near the centre of the West Indies, Haïti is barely 2 hours flight from Miami, via Port-au-Prince.

The RECOCARNO area falls almost entirely within the North and North-East Departments of Haïti, an area dominated by the Massif du Nord (Northern Massif). The port of export, Cap-Haïtien, lies on the narrow Plaine du Nord (Northern Plain). The border with the Dominican Republic follows, in part, the Massacre River in this northern region.

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