Petit Goave Is A Coastal Town In Ouest Department, Haïti.
Petit Goave is located at around 18¡ã25¡ä53¡åN, 72¡ã52¡ä1¡åW, some 68 km south of Port-au-Prince. The town has a population of approximately 12,000 inhabitants.
The town is one of the oldest cities of the country, and was named Goave 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-Goave and Petit-Goave. The latter became a wealthy settlement in the western half of Hispaniola and briefly became the "pre-capital" of the prosperous colony of Saint-Domingue.
