Monte Plata

This article is about the municipality. For the province, see Monte Plata Province.

Monte Plata
—  Municipality  —
Monte Plata
Coordinates: 18°48′36″N 69°47′24″W / 18.81°N 69.79°W / 18.81; -69.79Coordinates: 18°48′36″N 69°47′24″W / 18.81°N 69.79°W / 18.81; -69.79
Country	Dominican Republic
Province	Monte Plata
Founded	1606
Area[1]
– Total	623.55 km2 (240.8 sq mi)
Elevation[2]	56 m (184 ft)
Population (2002)[3]
– Total	37,614
– Density	60.3/km2 (156.2/sq mi)
– Urban	14,850
– Rural	22,764
Municipal Districts	3
Distance to  – Santo Domingo	153 km

Monte Plata is a municipality (municipio) and the capital of the Monte Plata province in the Dominican Republic. It includes the municipal districts (distritos municipal) of Boyá, Chirino, and Don Juan.^[4]

As of the Dominican Republic's 2002 census, the municipality had a total population of 37,614 inhabitants, of which 14,850 resided in urban areas and 22,764 in rural areas.^[3]

History

Monte Plata was founded with the towns of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata, which were destroyed by disposition of the king of Spain of the epoch and executed by Antonio Ozorio Governor of the Island, both towns gave name, they united Monte of Monte Cristi and calling it Plata Puerto Plata Monte Plata, were 87 neighbors that is to say heads of families the ones that founded to Monte Plata.

Hydrology

In the municipality the main rivers of the province are the Ozama and the Yabacao. Other rivers are tributary, Yamasá, Mijo, Sabita and Guanuma.

Culture

The main cultural wealth that have are its elements folk, dances, songs, stories, oral traditions and written, historic monuments, their popular religiousness, beliefs. These the mountainous foothills they form it, their rivers and gaps, which constitute a great wealth the tourism.

References

1. ^ Superficies a nivel de municipios, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica
2. ^ De la Fuente, Santiago (1976) (in Spanish). Geografía Dominicana. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Editora Colegial Quisqueyana. 
3. ^ ^{a b} "VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda" (in Spanish) (PDF in ZIP). Oficina Nacional de Estadística. 9 February 2004. http://one.gob.do/censo/volumen_I_pdf.zip. Retrieved 12 August 2011. 
4. ^ "Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006" (in Spanish). Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos. 20 June 2006. Archived from the original on 14 March 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070314215735/http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=113. Retrieved 12 August 2011.