The Gulf of Gonâve (French: Golfe de la Gonâve, pronounced [ɡɔlf də la ɡɔnav]; Haitian Creole: Gòf Lagonav) is a large gulf of the Caribbean Sea along the western coast of Haiti.
[1] Haiti's capital city, Port-au-Prince, is located on the coast of the gulf.
Other cities on the gulf coast include Gonaïves, Saint-Marc, Léogane Miragoâne, and Jérémie.
The Gulf is more than 500 km in length from Mole-Saint-Nicolas to Abricots and it consist of more than a dozen bays and harbors.
The Port-au-Prince Bay is the largest in the country and one of the biggest in the Caribbean.