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2 unusual facts about Consuelo, San Pedro de Macorís


Consuelo

Consuelo, San Pedro de Macorís, a municipality in the San Pedro de Macorís province of the Dominican Republic

Consuelo Field

Consuelo Airport is located in the municipality of Consuelo, in the San Pedro de Macorís province of the Dominican Republic.


Benedetta Barzini

Discovered on the streets by Consuelo Crespi in 1963, Diana Vreeland soon spotted her potential as a model and arranged a photo shoot with Irving Penn, which established her successful fashion career in New York City.

Bésame

Bésame Mucho, Spanish language song written in 1940 by Mexican Consuelo Velázquez before her sixteenth birthday

Cocolo

It is also a term used to refer to people from Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean in Spanish-speaking countries and the Cocolos of San Pedro de Macorís, Puerto Plata and the Samaná Peninsula in the Dominican Republic.

In the Dominican Republic, "Cocolo" is used only to refer to Caribbean descendants who came to the cities of San Pedro de Macorís, Puerto Plata, and other areas to work on the docks and sugar cane plantations at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.

The usage, outside of the specific ethnicity of the Cocolos of San Pedro de Macorís, is vague, and at times the word can mean all blacks or all the poor of any race or those that identify with the Afro-Latino culture and music, such as Salsa and other Spanish Afro-Caribbean musical genres.

Consuelo de Saint Exupéry

Consuelo is also a major character in the forthcoming historical novel Studio Saint-Ex by Ania Szado.

Consuelo's relationship with Antoine was portrayed by Miranda Richardson and Bruno Ganz in the 1996 biopic Saint-Ex.

Consuelo Luz

'Consuelo Luz' is a Chilean-Cuban singer of Sephardic, Mapuche and Basque origins.

Estrellas Orientales

Based in San Pedro de Macorís, the team has historically struggled, winning championships only in 1954 and 1968.

George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester

One of Consuelo Iznaga's closest friends, Edith Wharton, was said to have incorporated certain aspects of her friend's marriage in her unfinished novel, The Buccaneers.

Laureano Ramírez

Laureano Ramírez Padilla (born December 24, 1965 in San Pedro de Macorís) is a retired Dominican boxer, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles in the Men's Flyweight division.

Modi'in Miracle

6' 6" Maximo Nelson from San Pedro de Macorís, in the Dominican Republic, led the league with 85 strikeouts; he pitched for the Gulf Coast Yankees in 2004 (posting a 6-5 record, with a 2.63 ERA).

Myrciaria floribunda

In the Dominican Republic it is associated with the eastern town of San Pedro de Macorís which has a large population of Eastern Caribbean descent.

Nelson Norman

Nelson Augusto Norman (born May 23, 1958, in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop, minor league coach and manager.

Rafael Pineda Ponce

He moved first to the city of La Esperanza, Intibucá, and then with his sister Consuelo he went to live with his uncle, Filadelfo López Morales in the village of Cofradia, in the department of Cortes.

SS Empire Dunstan

She arrived at San Pedro de Macorís on 8 February, departing four days later for Guantanamo Bay, arriving on 14 February and sailing two days later for New York, where she arrived on 23 February.

Sureza

Several of these examples are found on the South-Eastern region of the Dominican Republic (La Romana, San Pedro de Macorís, Boca Chica and others)

The Marines Are Coming

Armida as Rosita Hernández Consuelo Ibera y Buenaventura

Tricom, S.A

On June 5, 2012, Tricom announced their intent to begin a buildout of a Hybrid fibre-coaxial network across Bayahibe, Bonao, Casa de Campo, La Romana, La Vega, San Cristóbal, San Francisco de Macorís, San Pedro de Macorís, Santiago, and Santo Domingo.

Virginia Fair Vanderbilt

They settled in a mansion at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City and had three children: Muriel (1902–1982), Consuelo (1903–1994) and William Kissam III (1907–1933).

William Kissam Vanderbilt

Alva later maneuvered Consuelo into marrying Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough on November 6, 1895.

Zobel Roxas Street

Zobel Roxas and other streets in the area (e.g, Jacobo, Consuelo, Don Pedro and Ayala Streets) were named for the Zobel de Ayala family who developed middle class subdivisions in those areas of Singalong and San Andres in the 1930s.


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