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Extract from the Monte Cristi Travel Guides:
West from Punta Rucia, the roads deteriorate even further and the only sensible way to make for the Haiti border is to turn south back onto the C-1 at
Villa Elisa
. The further west you go, the more the landscape transforms itself - gone are the swaying palms and grassy pastures, replaced by scrubby cactus plants and dusty dry soil inhabited mainly by goats. The carretera terminates at the westernmost outpost of the Silver Coast,
Monte Cristi
, founded in 1501 and at one point one of the country's most important ports. These days it resembles a dusty frontier town bearing only the occasional tarnished remnant of its opu...
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