San Gregorio de Yaguate

San Gregorio de Yaguate, also called Yaguate, is a municipality ("municipio") of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic. [cite web |url=http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=113|title=Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-01-24]

Geography

Yaguate is located about 30 miles from San Cristobal near the DR-2 that goes to Baní.

The town square has a basketball court, along with a several churches. There is also the Ayuntamiento, the town hall. There is a small secondary school, a clinic, and a few small grocery stores, along with several bars. The region is filled with sugar cane fields, and nearby the town is a large sugar refinery called "Ingenio Caei."

If you take the road heading north from the town it will lead through several small neighborhoods, and will lead to the Nizao river. There are many sand mines in the area, but there are some very good swimming spots as the river is very clear. Farther up the road is the Valdesia Dam.

In 2003 the town suffered a terrible flood that killed one person who died due to a locked door that trapped the individual inside and covered roughly half of the town. Missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints helped to rescue many people from the flood.

Demographics

As of the 2002 census the municipality had 39,594 inhabitants, 5,248 living in the town itself and 34,346 in its rural districts ("Secciones"). [cite web |url=http://one.gob.do/censo/volumen_I_pdf.zip
format = PDF|title=VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadística|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-01-24] For comparison with other municipalities and municipal districts see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

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