What is Gonaïves?
{{coord|19|27|N|72|41|W|region:HT|display=title}} {{Infobox settlement | official_name = Gonaïves | native_name = ''Gonayiv'' | settlement_type = [[List of communes of Haiti|Commune]] | nickname = La Cité de l'Indépendance<br>''The City of Independence'' |image_skyline = |imagesize = 250px |image_caption =Cathedral of St. Charles Borromeo | pushpin_map = Haiti | pushpin_relief = | map_caption = Location in [[Artibonite (department)|Artibonite]], [[Haiti]] | coordinates = | subdivision_type = [[Country]] | subdivision_name = [[File:Flag of Haiti.svg|25px]] [[Haiti]] | subdivision_type1 = [[Departments of Haiti|Department]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Artibonite (department)|Artibonite]] | subdivision_type2 = [[Arrondissements of Haiti|Arrondissement]] |subdivision_name2 = [[Gonaïves Arrondissement|Gonaïves]] | leader_title = [[Mayor]] | leader_name = [[Neil Latorture]] | elevation_m = 6 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_footnotes = <ref>''Institut Haïtien de Statistique et d'Informatique'' (IHSI)</ref> | population_total = 300,000 | population_metro = 104,825 | timezone = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]] | utc_offset = -5 | timezone_DST = [[Eastern Standard Time Zone|Eastern]] | utc_offset_DST = -4 }} '''Gonaïves''' ([[Haitian Creole|Kréyòl]]: ''Gonayiv'') is a [[Harbour|port]] [[city]] in western [[Haiti]]. It is the [[Capital (city)|capital city]] of the [[Artibonite Department|Artibonite]] ''[[Departments of Haiti|Département]]''. The city is on the [[coast]] of the ''Gonaïve'' Bay, on the northeast of the [[Gulf of Gonâve]], about 171&nbsp;km north of the [[Haiti]]an capital [[Port-au-Prince]]. It is also the chief town of an ''arrondissement'' (a part of a department) with the same name. The ''arrondissement'' has three ''communes'' (a ''commune'' is like a [[municipality]]): Gonaïves, Ennery and Estère. == History == [[File:Centennial Palace in Gonaïves, Haiti c 1904.jpg|thumb|The Centennial [[Palace]] was built in Gonaïves to celebrate 100 years of Haitian indep