San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Crowded SAN PEDRO DE MACORÍS , seventy kilometres east of Santo Domingo, owes its uneven development to the boom-and-bust fortunes of the sugar industry. Victorian civic monuments built during the crop's glory years stand along the eastern bank of the Higuamo River, a far cry from the squalor of the surrounding neighbourhoods. Many of the 125,000 people of San Pedro are descendants of Cocolos – "The English", as many of them prefer to be called – imported during the early twentieth century as seasonal field labour. Their presence is most obvious during the Cocolo festivals held … more »