The Taíno people, the group of people indigenous to what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, came up with the name “Haití” back in the pre-colonial period. The name is translated from their language as “mountainous land.” Haiti is full of beautiful mountaintops - we even drive through the highest elevated peak in Haiti, Pic la Selle, when we visit Cascade Pichon! We can see why the native Haitians gave this name to their homeland.