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11 unusual facts about San Pedro de Macorís


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

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.

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.

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)


Estrellas Orientales

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

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.