A – PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
1 – Location – The zone under consideration is situated in the watershed area of Grande-Riviere de Nippes and its tributary , the Riviere Serpent. The zone covers, besides some other neighboring localities geopolitically part of Anse-a-Veau’s district, most of the localities depending on l’Asile district’s first communal section called Morisseau. The center by the same name is at about 10km east of l’Asile, commune of Anse-a-Veau arrondissement, in the department of Nippes.
2 – Climate – There isn’t any extensive climatic data available for the zone. The indicators registered at Fond-des-Negres, around 30km away can’t be considered due to the great variability offered by the micro-climates, between the 200m and 400m altitude marks. However an agricultural monitor living in Morisseau still operates the mini weather stations established at Morisseau, l’Asile and Bouzy (neighboring locality) by the Project DRI – L’Asile since the 1980’s. The pluviometers read in average 1,500 to 2,000mm with a dry season extending from November to March. In fact, this reading is close to 1,679mm average accepted for the whole watershed.
At 300m altitude, at the level of Morisseau climatologic station, the monitor have registered temperatures oscillating between the 19o and 20o C minima in January, and 28o – 29o C maxima during the July-August period. But in the shade, the temperature is most of the time mild due to the breeze crossing the area from Grande Riviere de Nippes’ (Nord) and Riviere Serpent’s (South) gullies.
3 – Hydrology – The Morisseau area is crossed by a network of springs and streams that flow, a few into Riviere Serpent and others into Grande Rivière de Nippes. Over twenty (20) have been identified with low water flow rates of 0.4 to 2 l/s which are considered relatively weak. However, some of them adequately harnessed could provide potable water to the neighboring inhabitants. We should mention:
Source Duval at Duval
Source Mauvais at Jacquot
Source Ti-Loro at Morisseau
Source Ti-Deli at Ti-Deli
Source La surprise at Ravine Sable
Source Vieline at Porchette
Source Adolphe at Faustin
Source Trou-Zombi at Baudouin
Source Edouard at Edouard
Not to mention: Nan-Poste, Manmi, Magazin, Ti Trou, Cocoyer, Baptiste, Baignoire, Courtois, Samadec, Laury …
The Cadet, Laury, Jacquot, Courtois, Baignoire and Sarmadec springs flow into Grande Riviere de Nippes while the others go and swell its tributary, Riviere Serpent.
The latter runs SE-NW making a curve at “Ka Paul” until its junction with Riviere Mahot, another tributary coming from the West. Those two (2) tributaries meet with Rivière Despins, a third one, to form Grande Rivière de Nippes, at the level of Tournade locality, 1 km N.E of L’Asile.
APREM (Association Permanente pour le Relèvement de Morisseau), Association headquartered in Haiti, with its main center at Morisseau (Communal Section of l’Asile-Arrondissement of Nippes), has been engaged in a few development actions in that locality since the late 1980’s: rural school rehabilitation, agricultural road construction, swine foundation stock distribution, tubed wells installation, seedlings, (forest and wood species) distribution.
APREM just raised money on November 15, 2015 at Incarnation Church in Queens Village to help defray some of the salary cost to run the school of Morrisseau. You can send your donation to them if you would like to support the school-St. Rose de Lima.
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