Puerto Plata

San Felipe de Puerto Plata , city and port of the North-western coast (Amber coast) of the Dominican Republic, and chief town of the province of the same name, approximately 130.000 inhabitants.

One of the most important commercial ports of the country. The city also has an international airport.

Its name, the Port of the Money , would be originating in Christophe Colomb itself, which would have thus called it because of the reflection of its floods, when it was in the sight of this coast in January 1493.

Nicolás de Ovando, concerned to have a port on the Northern coast of the island, was at the origin of its foundation towards 1502.

Starting from 1555, Puerto Plata lost importance and became one of the places of the the Antilles where was practiced smuggling with the Pirate S and Flibustier S of the the Caribbean.

The city was destroyed in 1606 by the Spaniards. It is only towards 1740, thanks to Spanish families originating in the the Canaries, which one owes his rebirth and which its port took again the importance which is his today.

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Diocese of Puerto Plata
Cathedral of Puerto Plata

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