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30-480: Montecristi is where the Duarte Highway ends, which runs through the country from South to North from the city of Santo Domingo. Additionally, the province has a network of secondary roads that interconnect the city of San Fernando de Montecristi with the other municipalities and surrounding provinces. Monte Cristi was founded by Nicolás de Ovando in 1506 and populated in 1533 by Juan de Bolaños and 63 families from

60-535: A campaign against Oran, in North Africa. The expedition never took place but Ovando was present at a general meeting of his order in Seville at the beginning of May. On 29 May 1511, Ovando died in Seville. His body was transferred to the monastery of San Benito de Alcántara . In his will, he founded a chapel and requested the friars to say a Requiem Mass every week. List of municipalities and municipal districts of

90-549: A distinguished family, he was the second son of Captain Diego de Cáceres Ovando and his wife Isabel Flores, a native of the town of Brozas. Ovando entered the military Order of Alcántara , where he became a Master ( Mestre or Maitre ) or a Commander -Major ( Comendador-Mayor ). This Spanish military order, founded in 1156, resembled the Order of Templars , with whom it fought the Moors during

120-542: A family acquaintance and distant relative, was supposed to sail to the Americas in this expedition, but was prevented from making the journey by an injury he sustained while hurriedly escaping from the bedroom of a married woman of Medellín . The expedition reached Santo Domingo in April 1502, and included Diego de Nicuesa and Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón . Also on board were 13 Franciscans , led by Friar Alonso de Espinar, bringing

150-596: Is a legal entity in its own right consisting of two bodies: the alcadía (Mayor's Office), with the alcalde ( Mayor ), and the Municipal Council ( concejo de regidores ), with at least five members ( regidores ). The Municipal Council is an exclusively normative, regulatory and supervisory body, the Mayor's Office the executive one. The mayor is a voting member of the Municipal Council. He and his deputy, as well as

180-459: Is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts with population figures as of the 2012 census. Urban population are those living in the seats ( cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities or of municipal districts. Rural population are those living in the districts ( secciones : sections) and neighborhoods ( parajes : stops) outside of them. For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see

210-526: Is fundamentally an immense plain with many hills. El Morro, with an approximate height of 237 meters, is one of the characteristic symbols of Montecristeno relief. It is a solitary elevation, in the form of a plateau. The Yaque del Norte River, the largest in the country, empties into the Montecristi Bay after making a long journey of 296 kilometers from the rugged Central Mountain Range. Three important rivers in

240-595: Is important. On the coast, fishing and salt production are important. Tourism development is currently concentrated in the city of Montecristi although there is potential along the entire coast, both western (Pepillo Salcedo) and north. Notable points are the Morro plateau and the Cayos Siete Hermanos. The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following municipalities ( municipios ) and municipal districts ( distrito municipal , D.M.) in them: The following

270-507: The Canary Islands . These migrated to various parts of the country afterwards leaving the town behind. It was later repopulated and became a wealthy port in the mid-to-late 16th century. During the 1600s the coast of Montecristi was a hotbed of pirate activity in the Caribbean. In 1756 the city became a prosperous trading center, until the early 20th century. Monte Cristi had a boom period in

300-537: The Reconquista . His elder brother was Diego de Cáceres y Ovando . As Commander of Lares, Ovando became a favourite of the Spanish Catholic Monarchs , particularly pious Queen Isabella I of Castile . Thus, on 3 September 1501, in response to complaints from Christopher Columbus and others about Francisco de Bobadilla , Isabella appointed Ovando to replace Bobadilla. Ovando became the third Governor of

330-581: The West Indies economically and thereby expand Spanish political, religious, and administrative influence in the region. Along with him also came Francisco Pizarro , who would later explore western South America and conquer the Inca Empire . Another ship carried Bartolomé de las Casas , who became known as the 'Protector of the Indians' for exposing atrocities committed by Ovando and his subordinates. Hernán Cortés,

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360-642: The list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic . Nicol%C3%A1s de Ovando Frey Nicolás de Ovando (c. 1460 – 29 May 1511 ) was a Spanish soldier from a noble family and a Knight of the Order of Alcántara , a military order of Spain. He was Governor of the Indies ( Hispaniola ) from 1502 until 1509, sent by the Spanish crown to investigate the administration of Francisco de Bobadilla and re-establish order. Ovando "pacified"

390-403: The regidores and their deputies, are elected by the electorate on the occasion of elections held nationally every four years. If a municipality consists of more than one urban center , the additional centres may be elevated to the status of municipal district ( distrito municipal ), with the remaining district of the municipality called cabecera (main municipality). The administration of

420-431: The Americas. Many Spanish aristocrats ordered slaves to work as servants in their homes. After the conquests made by his lieutenants including Juan Ponce de León and Juan de Esquivel , Ovando founded several cities on Hispaniola. He also developed the mining industry, introduced the cultivation of sugar cane with plants imported from the Canary Islands , and commissioned expeditions of discovery and conquest throughout

450-439: The Caribbean. Ovando allowed Spanish settlers to use the natives in forced labour, a system known as encomienda , to provide food for the colonists and for ships returning to Spain. Hundreds of thousands of Taíno died while forced to extract gold from the nearby mines. Pursuant to a deathbed promise he made to his wife Queen Isabella I , King Ferdinand II of Aragon recalled Ovando to Spain in 1509 to answer for his treatment of

480-594: The Dominican Republic [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The municipalities of the Dominican Republic are, after the regions and the provinces , the third level of the political and administrative division of the Dominican Republic . The division of provinces into municipalities ( municipios ) is established in the Constitution and further regulated by Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of

510-429: The Dominican Republic. It was enacted in 1959 and has been frequently amended to create new provinces, municipalities and lower-level administrative units. Municipalities may be further divided into secciones (literally: sections) and parajes (literally: places or neighborhoods ). Municipal districts ( distritos municipales ) may be formed in the case of municipalities with several urban centres. The provinces as

540-588: The Indies, the Islands, and the Province of Tierra Firme . On 13 February 1502, he sailed from Spain with a fleet of thirty ships. It was the largest fleet that had ever sailed to the New World. The thirty ships carried around 2 500 colonists. Unlike Columbus 's earlier voyages, this group of colonists was deliberately selected to represent an organized cross-section of Spanish society. The Spanish Crown intended to develop

570-827: The dictator Ulises Hereaux forced to escape from the hands of his political rival, Juan Isidro Jiménez , and then the problems derived from World War I. The Montecristi province limits to the North with the Atlantic Ocean: to the South with the provinces Dajabón and Santiago Rodríguez; to the East with the Valverde province and to the West with the Atlantic Ocean and the Republic of Haiti. The Montecristi province

600-516: The island by force, subduing native Americans and rebellious Spaniards, with disorderly colonists being sent back to Spain in chains. He implemented the encomienda system with the native Taíno population. Nicolás de Ovando was born around 1460 in Extremadura . Some place his birth in Brozas but Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo knew him well and said he was a native of the city of Cáceres . Belonging to

630-545: The last quarter of the 1800s. The town was at the forefront in many of the advances including the first aqueduct, first railroad and telephone. The great task of diverting the course of the Yaque del Norte River was undertaken, which had lost its initial course when the cataclysm of 1802. The town attracted people not only from Santo Domingo, Santiago, Puerto Plata and other communities, but also foreigners (English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Americans, South Americans and islanders from

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660-416: The municipal district is the responsibility of a municipal district office ( junta municipal ), which includes the director ( director ) and a municipal district council ( junta de vocales ) with at least three members ( vocales ). The director and his deputy, as well as the vocales and their deputies, are elected by the electorate on the occasion of elections held nationally every four years. They represent

690-544: The municipal district to the municipality and are subordinate to it. If a municipality is further divided into secciones , the municipal council appoints an alcalde pedáneo for each of them. He reports to the mayor or, if his sección is in a municipal district, to its director . If the municipality is further divided into parajes , the municipal council appoints an ayudante del alcalde pedáneo for each of them. Municipalities are often given special designations because of their number of inhabitants: ciudad ( city ) in

720-532: The native people. Diego Columbus was appointed his successor as governor, but the Spanish Crown permitted Ovando to retain possession of the property he brought back from the Americas. Little is known of Ovando's activities after his return to Spain in 1509. He probably spent much of his time in the town of Brozas, the headquarters of the Order of Alcántara. In February 1511, Ferdinand ordered Ovando to accompany him on

750-664: The other Antilles). In 1895, it was the site of the signing of the Manifesto of Montecristi by Máximo Gómez and José Martí , at the Gómez home on Mella St. They sailed from "La Granja" beach, also in Montecristi, to Cuba to fight for its independence. The economic decline of Monte Cristi began with the decrease in the demand for raw materials in Europe, difficulties of the Casa Jiménez, which

780-748: The province join the Yaque del Norte: the Maguaca, the Guayubín, and the Indio. The Chacuey River and its tributary, the Macabón, are also part of the provincial basins, which complete numerous streams. The Montecristi province belongs to the Irrigation District called Bajo Yaque del Norte, with two different irrigation zones in it: Villa Vásquez and Las Matas de Santa Cruz. The first covers an area of approximately 179,733 tasks, and

810-415: The second covers 320,672 tasks. The Montecristi province has one of the most diverse and numerous systems of protected areas in the country, six in total, which include national parks, underwater national parks, wildlife refuges and scientific reserves. The main activity of the province is agriculture, with important production of fruits and vegetables; in addition, the production of goats, sheep and cattle

840-507: 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" ). According to the Constitution and the law, the municipalities are administered by the municipality's Municipal Office ( ayuntamiento ), which

870-458: The time of the arrival of the Spaniards in 1492 vary, with Anderson Córdova giving a maximum of 500 000 people inhabiting the island. By the 1507 census, according to Bartolomé de las Casas , battlefield slaughter, enslavement and disease had reduced the native population to 60 000 people, and the decline continued. In 1501, Ovando ordered the first importation of Spanish-speaking black slaves into

900-575: The total on the island to 25. When Ovando arrived in Hispaniola in 1502, he found the once-peaceful natives in revolt. Ovando and his subordinates ruthlessly suppressed this rebellion through a series of bloody campaigns, including the Jaragua Massacre and Higüey Massacre . Ovando's administration in Hispaniola became notorious for its cruelty toward the native Taíno . Estimates of the Taino population at

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