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Petit Goâve Petit Goâve, a coastal town in Ouest Department, Haïti. 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 of Hispaniola and briefly became the "pre-capital" of the prosperous colony of Saint-Domingu