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Haiti Island

The Haiti Island

Today we are going to learn about the Islands of Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti (French: République d'Haïti; Haitian Creole: Repiblik d Ayiti), and formerly known as Hayti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands

Haiti is a Caribbean country that is part of a bigger island named Hispaniola. It shares the island with the much bigger country called the Dominican Republic. Haiti makes up three-fifths of the western portion of Hispaniola, while the Dominican Republic makes up the other five-eighths on the eastern side. Haiti also contains many smaller islands of its own. You’ll find these islands within 20 to 50 miles from the coastline around the horseshoe shape of the country. There are at least six Haitian islands worth mentioning. Many of them are designed to be tourist attractions because of their beautiful white sandy beaches and other noteworthy recreational activities.

Île-à-Vache (aka. Cow Island) le-à-Vache is another notable Haitian satellite island that goes by a few different names. When the Spanish explorers came to Haiti, they called the island “Isla Vaca.” About a hundred years later, the French came to Haiti and called the island “Île-à-Vache.” That is the official name of it now. The English translation is “Cow Island.”

La Gonâve Island Gonâve Island or Zile Lagonav 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 (Arrondissement de La Gonâve) or Ouest-Insulaire in the Ouest

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