San Pedro de MacorÃs
Location of San Pedro in the Dominican Republic
San Pedro de Macoris is a city in the Dominican Republic, with about 194,000 inhabitants in the city itself and about 23,000 residents in the surrounding area (just under 217,000 in the agglomeration ). San Pedro de Macoris is thus the third largest city in the Dominican Republic. As a provincial capital, it is home to the Universidad del Este.
Its heyday was San Pedro de Macoris in the early 20th century, when the sugar on the preferential market in the United States to the then fantastic price of twenty centavos was sold. At that time the inhabitants should have danced for joy on the road, which became known as the dance of the millions in the history of the young city, because for the next economic boom had to be recruited a large number of additional workers. This is primarily to Anglo- African immigrants black skin of Tortola, one of the British Virgin Islands. These workers and their descendants are still called in reference to the names of their home island of Tortola, cocolos.
Geography
The city is located on the Caribbean coast of the country, about 80 km east of the capital Santo Domingo.
Attractions
San Pedro de Macoris is mainly an industrial town with few tourist attractions. Attractions in the surrounding area include the fishing village of Bayahibe, with his picture book beach and Isla Saona in National Park Del Este. In San Pedro, even the buildings on the coast road, which still bear witness to the former wealth of the city, and the San Pedro Apóstol church, with its gargoyles and stained glass windows in the classical style are worth seeing. Also, the fire station is worth a visit. Although San Pedro de Macoris has no international charisma, but nationally for the Dominican Republic. In 2009, in nearby Cumayasa (20 km SE ) discovered caves to visitors freigegeben.Dort to, among other ancient cave paintings be on display.
Traffic
The destination airport for San Pedro de Macoris is that of the adjacent city of La Romana.
San Pedro de Macoris has since 2007 a bridge over the Río Higuamo (), which is the longest bridge in the Caribbean. The length of the bridge is 620 meters, of which 390 meters in the hanging part. The bridge is 24.80 meters wide. It should be safe and hurricane wind speeds withstand up to 240 km / hr. The bridge is part of the motorway connection to La Romana and continuing in the tourist centers of Punta Cana and Bavaro. The official name of the bridge Puente Mauricio Baez.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Bienvenido Bustamante López (1923-2001), composer and clarinetist
- Robinson Canó (* 1982 ), players in the U.S. Major League Baseball
- Ivonne Haza (* 1938), soprano
- Samuel Sosa Peralta ( born 1968 ), player in the U.S. Major League Baseball
- Sonia Silvestre ( born 1952 ), singer
- Violeta Stephen ( born 1929 ), singer
- Julio de Windt ( b. 1935 ), conductor, violinist and music teacher
- Place in the Dominican Republic