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4 unusual facts about Puerto Plata


Culture of the Dominican Republic

October's Puerto Plata Festival brings musicians from around the country together to perform live music in a variety of genres.

Concerts, dance troupes, arts and crafts booths, and chefs also celebrate Dominican heritage with an annual cultural festival in Puerto Plata each June.

Dominican War of Independence

Haiti's president, Jean Pierre Boyer, promised his full protection and support to the frontier governors, and thus he ceremoniously entered the country with around 10,000 soldiers in February 1822, after most of the cities and towns proclaimed their allegiance to the Republic of Haiti between November 1821 and January 1822, including Puerto Plata (December 13, 1821) and Santiago (December 29, 1821).

HIV/AIDS in the Dominican Republic

According to the 2005 World Health Organization (WHO)/UNAIDS AIDS Epidemic Update, a 2004 study in Puerto Plata, Samana, and Santo Domingo found that 11 percent of MSM were HIV-positive.


Arthur Lithgow

Lithgow was born in Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic, the son of Ina Berenice (née Robinson), a nurse, and Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an entrepreneur.

Benjamin de Menil

Joan Soriano, Puerto Plata, Edilio Paredes, Leonardo Paniagua, Ramon Cordero, El Chivo Sin Ley and The Bachata Legends are among the artists that have entered the international spotlight under de Menil's patronage.

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.

Edilio Paredes

Today, Paredes is a working musician; as a leading member of the groups Super Uba and Puerto Plata, he is bringing bachata to a whole new audience.

Gulf Air Transport

One-time charter flights were operated as well, including weekend sports charters, to many international destinations including Rock Sound International Airport in the Bahamas, Curaçao, Grenada and Puerto Plata in the Caribbean, Bermuda and also to Europe including London, England and Warsaw, Poland.

Termitaradus dominicanus

The holotype fossil is composed of a complete adult individual that was collected from an unidentified amber mine between Puerto Plata and Santiago de los Caballeros.

Trevor Ariza

Ariza is of Dominican and Turks & Caicos Islands descent through his grandfather Osvaldo Ariza, a native of Puerto Plata, and his mother Lolita, a native of Grand Turk Island.


see also

Birgenair Flight 301

On 6 February 1996, the Boeing 757-225 operating the route crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata's Gregorio Luperón International Airport.