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Gonâve Island
Gonâve Island ((フランス語:Île de la Gonâve), ; also ''La Gonâve'') is an island of Haiti located west-northwest of Port-au-Prince in the Gulf of Gonâve. It is the largest of the Hispaniolan satellite islands. The island is an arrondissement (''La Gonâve Arrondissement'') in the Ouest Department and includes the communes of Anse-à-Galets and Pointe-à-Raquette. The indigenous Taínos called the island ''Guanabo.''〔Description de Saint-Domingue, M.L.E. Moreau de Saint-Méry, vol. 2, p. 528, Philadelphia: 1798.〕
==Geography==
Made up of mostly limestone, the reef-fringed island of Gonâve is long and wide and covers an area of . The island is mostly barren and hilly with the highest point reaching . The island receives between to of rain a year, higher elevations representing the latter figure.〔(National Aeronautics and Space Administration )〕
The barren, dry nature of the soil has long prevented agricultural development on the island and kept the population lower than it otherwise might have been. During the colonial period, the island was uninhabited by colonists, which led the indigenous Taínos to seek refuge there after early battles with the Spanish.〔Description de Saint-Domingue, p. 528.〕 Runaway slaves in the French period, too, sometimes sought out the island for a place to hide from their owners on the mainland.〔("''Les Affiches Américaines''" ), 19 March 1766, pg. 102 (accessed 30 May 2014)〕 Overgrazing and over-exploitation of water resources affect the island's current residents.
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