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La Vega (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈβeɣa]) is one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Cibao Valley , the north-central region of the country, and is divided into 4 municipalities with its capital city being the namesake of La Vega .
In the days of National Independence, the city of La Vega joined the cause of freedom with soldiers. On March 4, 1844, La Vega formalized its declaration in support of the War of Independence, and that same day it became the first town in the country to raise the national flag. [8] Colonial architecture in LA Vega Dominican Republic downtown ...
General Daniel Batista y Rodríguez - Comandante del Ejército del Norte, Héroe y Prócer de la Restauración. General Rafael Ureña Tiburcio - General de combate, Héroe de la fuerza aérea dominicana. General Norberto Tiburcio - General de Brigada, Héroe de la Restauración. General José Durán - General de Brigada, Héroe de la Restauración.
In 1533 Cotuí acquired the category of a town, then it began to be known as La Villa Mejorada del Cotuí. Cotui's gold mine was already in production and had become the richest in the New World . In the third decade of the 16th century, the Cotuí gold mine was exploited by a German company of miners, who established an important mining camp ...
The town was formally founded in 1894. It was incorporated into a municipality in La Vega Province on September 9, 1907. On June 14, 1959, a plane landed on a Constanza airstrip with more than forty rebels with the purpose of killing the dictator of the time Rafael Trujillo and starting a communist revolution in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared by ...
The day before she walked into Mexico, Kobayashi and the man bumped into each other outside LAX and walked through downtown LA together, talking and smiling until they made their way to Union ...
Zoilo Hermogenes García Peña (December 21, 1881 - December 11, 1916) [1] was a civil engineer and aviator from the Dominican Republic. Besides being a prolific engineer credited with building, among other things, the first theater of La Vega, [2] he is best remembered for designing and flying the first Dominican heavier-than-air aircraft in 1911–1912.