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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 .
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La Vega, is the fourth largest city and municipality of the Dominican Republic. It is in La Vega Province . The city is known as the Carnaval epicenter of the Dominican Republic for its tradition and culture, its large agricultural production methods throughout its province.
The provinces as the second level of political and administrative division contain at least two municipalities. The Distrito Nacional, which is neither a municipality nor a province, consists of only one municipality, Santo Domingo (Constitution: "the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is the Distrito Nacional" [5]).
In the religious plane we can find the Santo Cristo de La Vega Church, which was built in the year 1568, by Francisco Infante and Garci González de Silva. Traditionally Holy Week is celebrated on Holy Wednesday, the procession which consists of taking the Virgin Mary and the Nazarene to walk the streets of this populous parish.
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; A Veiga, a Galician town whose Castilian name is La Vega; La Vega, capital of the municipality of Vega de Liébana
It was incorporated into a municipality in La Vega Province on September 9, 1907. Constanza, Dominican Republic downtown parade 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 city is known as "La Villa Heroica" (Village of Heroes) due to the number of men and women from Moca who have played a major role in the Dominican Republic's history in bringing down two dictators, Ulises Heureaux and Rafael Trujillo, and bringing democracy back to the country.