- Petit-Goâve
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footnotes =Petit Goâve ( _ht. Tigwav) is a coastal town in
Ouest Department ,Haïti . It is located at around coord|18|25|53|N|72|52|1|W|display=inline,title, some 68 km south ofPort-au-Prince . The town has a population of approximately 12,000 inhabitants.History
The town is one of the oldest cities of the country, and was named "Goâve" by the Amerindians. The Spanish called it "Aguava" at the end of the 16th century. After French colonization through the releasing of the Spanish, the French divided the city into two halves;
Grand-Goâve and Petit-Goâve. The latter became a wealthy settlement in the western half ofHispaniola and briefly became the "pre-capital" of the prosperous colony ofSaint-Domingue .Personalities originally from Petit Goâve
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Dany Laferrière , writer.
*Hubert Deronceray , leader of the political party
*Faustin Elie Soulouque (Faustin I) - President of Haïti 1847-1849 Emperor of Haiti 1849-1859
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