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Extract from the San Pedro de Macors Travel Guides:
Crowded
SAN PEDRO DE MACORS
, 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 at Christmas...
read the whole San Pedro de Macors Travel Guides...
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