Belladère

Also known as Belladere

Belladère (; , ) is a commune in the Lascahobas Arrondissement, inside the Centre department of Haiti. Its border crossing into the Dominican town of Comendador is one of the four chief land crossings into the Dominican Republic.

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Settlement.official_name: Belladère
Settlement.settlement_type: Commune
Settlement.mapframe: yes
Settlement.pushpin_map: Haiti
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: left
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Haiti
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: Haiti
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Department
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Centre
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Arrondissement
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Lascahobas
Settlement.established_title2: Dominican cession to Haiti
Settlement.established_date2: 1936
Settlement.area_total_km2: 296.65
Settlement.population_as_of: 2015
Settlement.population_total: 86612
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto

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Population: 86612
Area: 296.65
Elevation: 400

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Commons category: Belladère
postal code: HT 5320

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It belonged to the Dominican Republic until 1936, when Dominican and Haitian leaders agreed to a boundary change in favor of Haiti, as the Haitian government commanded by Sténio Vincent wanted to move the border eastward while the Dominican regime under Rafael Trujillo saw the cession of the territory (despite some domestic opposition) as a de-Haitianization of the country, as that area had experienced significant Haitian settlement in the previous decades, bolstered by both Haiti's population explosion and scarcity of wastelands, with ethnic Dominicans becoming a minority in Belladère (then Veladero) and its surrounding areas.