Pont-Sondé

Pont-Sondé is a town in the communal section of Bocozelle in the Saint-Marc commune, in the Artibonite department of Haiti.

Location

Located within the Saint-Marc Arrondissement, Pont-Sondé is located at an important crossroads on the road linking the capital Port-au-Prince to the second largest city of Cap-Haïtien on the northern coast.

When the Haitian national highway was constructed in 1880, a bridge spanning across the Artibonite River was built. The settlement of Pont-Sondé then developed around this bridge.
Pont-Sonde had about ten thousand inhabitants before the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Since then, the village has hosted a large influx of refugees.
In September 2024, during the Gang war in Haiti, personnel from the Anti-Gang Tactical Unit and the Departmental Operations and Intervention Brigade were deployed to Pont-Sondé. Despite this, the town was attacked by the Grand Grif gang on 3 October 2024, leaving at least 115 people dead.

Pont-Sondé is the leading producer of rice in Haiti. There is an important market which is held along the road and on the bridge over the Artibonite.