Island of Gonve

The history of the island of Gonave starts with a massacre, that of the Anacaona queen. The members of its court who could escape the massacre are taken refuge on the island. It is told that Anacaona liked to bathe around Picmy. Gonve
the last refuge of the Amerindians in Haiti constituted.

During second half of the XIX E century, this full of fish zone attracted the fishermen. They were also devoted to agriculture. In 1976, a cyclone devastated the south of Haiti and the survivors left as farmers on the island Gonve. At the time of the American occupation the island was divided into working and together living Congo companies. One of them, Faustin Wirkus became their king. The island of Gonve is located between the channel of Saint-Marc and the channel of the South. This island of 800 km2 is as large as Martinique. It extends in length on 57 km. She saw with the variation of the country and, except erosion, she changed little since descriptions that made of it Faustin Wirkus the officer tasunien who was selected as king by the population in the years 1920. he recalls his experiment in