Aux Cayes

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Aux Cayes (also Les Cayes, Okay in Kreyòl) is a southern port town in Haiti in the department Sud (South). It is the birthplace of André Rigaud (1761) and it was here that South American liberator Simón Bolivar first landed in Haiti (1815).

At a meeting in July of 1803 at Camp Gérard, near the town of Les Cayes, the Generals of the southern army under Geffrard, form an alliance with Jean-Jacques Dessalines.