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La Vega, a city in the central Dominican Republic, was founded in 1495 by Batholomew Columbus at the foot of a fortress built by Christopher Columbus in 1494, which intended to guard the route to the interior gold deposits of the Cibao valley. A Spanish settlement called Concepción de la Vega gradually grew around the fort. [5]
Dominican Republic carnival of La Vega. An event that strengthened the economic development of the area was the inauguration of the railway between the port of Las Cañitas (Sánchez) and the city of La Vega, the product of the efforts of the worthy Gregorio Rivas. The transport by this means of fruits and merchandise led to new living conditions.
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. Obdulio Jiménez (Don Lulo) - Empresario y Pionero de la industria energética local.
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.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Río Grande is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions. [1]
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La Vega (city), or Concepción de La Vega, the third largest city and municipality of the Dominican Republic La Vega Province, a province in central Dominican Republic named for the city of La Vega; La Vega, Cauca, a town and municipality in Colombia; La Vega, Cundinamarca, a town and municipality in Colombia
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