Port-au-Prince Bay | |
Pushpin Map: | Haiti |
Location: | Gulf of Gonâve |
Countries: | Haiti |
Settlements: | Port-au-Prince |
Port-au-Prince Bay is a bay located in the Gulf of Gonâve in Haiti, at the bottom of which lies the vast plain of the Cul-de-Sac and the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, alongside its metropolitan area. It is connected to the gulf via two inlets located on either side of the island of Gonâve: the Canal de Saint-Marc to the north of it and the Canal de la Gonâve to the south.
Port-au-Prince Bay extends from the Pointe de Trou Forban in the northwest to the Pointe de Cà-lra in the southwest[1] and is about wide and about long.
The Grise, Bâtarde, Froide, and Momance Rivers as well as the Boucanbrou Canal flow into Port-au-Prince Bay.
On 13 January 2010, in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Forward arrived and began running air-traffic control from Port-au-Prince Bay.[2]