Haiti was a country located in the Caribbean.
The Doctor, Ace and Bernice Summerfield accidentally went there in 1915 when trying to visit Ernest Hemingway in nearby Key West, Florida. Once there, they met Francois Lacombe, a native of the Alsace region of France. (NA: White Darkness). On a different occasion, the Doctor encountered Cthulhu in Haiti (NA: All-Consuming Fire)