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La Romana city and an hour thirty minutes from the capital city. If you ever step a foot in Boca de Yuma you will be wrap by numerous attractions, for example hunting, fishing, hiking, biking, photography, beaches, caves and national park. The national park is home of different species of birds and animals of the region. A navigable river of 1.5 km in length, which if you travel by boat up the river it reveals the beautiful landscapes and the caves where according to tradition the pirate
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to provide water to all the people built the public water fountain (La Llave
Publica). From John Bernard Park off the tip of the virgin you can see a beautiful panorama of the bay, a euphoric view of the beach, White Beach, Cape San Rafael, Cape Engaño and a beautiful view of the southern part of the
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In 2008 the population was about 2,400 people. This hidden paradise remains a humble village surrounded by beautiful beaches. It is a town of simple individuals, and modest workers. Boca de Yuma is within short distance of La
Altagracia province, one-hour drive from Punta Cana, thirty minutes from
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of Puerto Rico to the Port of Higüey for the Battle of Palo
Hincado. The material, which has had been embarked in a Brigantine and a goélette included: two small boats equipped with guns, four hundred rifles with bayonets, and two hundred sabers. There were also two hundred volunteers, the majority
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On the coastline are the remains of a cannon that is believed to be the same as the one that
Archbishop Fernando Navarrete asked for from the King of Spain, in order to defend and protect the Shrine of Our Lady of La Altagracia in Higüey. In 1877 an expedition organized by the
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In 1966, The
Incorporated Club Nautical of Santo Domingo installed an extension of the team games recreation area on the coast. It was initiated by Don Alberto Bonetti Burgos, who traveled frequently to Boca De Yuma for fishing and hunting doves.
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of Curaçao found cannons left underwater in Yuma Bay. They were placed as monuments on an ocean cliff where the community park and the historic lighthouse are located. Other guns and battleships remain on the Playa Blanca (White Beach).
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Another place to visit is The Cave
Bernard with beautiful stalagmites and stalactites, the Cave of Bernard, that name by being inside the property of John Bernard one of the first founders of the community. The dictator
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in the goélette Maria
Consuelo, headed by Mr. Catalino Vidal. They settled where the first school was, close to the boat launch beach. Later they built the first concrete school here, named after
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Boca de Yuma had a
Spanish colonial fort overlooking the Yuma Bay. The fort held a highly defensible position, with the cannons as the main defense.
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Boca de Yuma was an important port in the victory over the
English in 1655, the Battle of Sabana Real on January 21, 1691, and the
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October 29, 1808, the mouth of the Río Yuma at Boca de Yuma was the witness of the support sent by the Governor General
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on November 7, 1808. Those were great military confrontations that changed the eventual history of the Dominican Republic.
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The first families that settled the village of Boca de Yuma came from various regions of the Spanish colonial
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on Hispaniola. Perhaps one of the first persons to settle here was Pedro Sifuentes, nicknamed the
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had his ship anchored in the Port of Higüey, and departed from here in 1508, for the conquest of
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One of the great pirates of those times, who defended the poor, was a man named
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in honor of the Thirty-Fifth President of the United States (1961–1963).
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