Canaan , Haiti , is a suburb of Croix-des-Bouquets and Thomazeau in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince , by 2016 an estimated population of 200,000 is settling in the about 50 square kilometers large territory that was expropriated in reaction to the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake . Since 2010 earthquake victims that were fleeing the chaos in the adjacent Port-au-Prince neighborhoods , migrants from rural zones of Haiti and people profiting from the uncontrolled situation invested according to ONU-Habitat data more than 10 million US Dollar in the development of the " new city "
2010 Haiti earthquake
2010 Haiti earthquake
Canaan, Haiti