San Pedro de Macorís

關於San Pedro de Macorís

San Pedro de Macorís is a city and municipality (municipio) in the Dominican Republic. The capital of its eponymous province in the eastern region of the country, it is among the ten largest cities of the Dominican Republic. The city has approximately 217,000 inhabitants when the entire municipality is included. As a provincial capital, it houses the Universidad Central del Este. San Pedro de Macorís is also well known for producing professional baseball players at an exceptionally high per capita rate.

There are four possible origins of the name "San Pedro": the first is that the name was chosen in honor of Saint Peter (San Pedro); the second is that it references San Pedro Beach near the city's port; the third is that it is a tribute to General Pedro Santana, who was president at the time; and finally, the name may have been chosen simply to distinguish the city from San Francisco de Macorís, a city in the north.

Macorís comes from the previous name of the Higuamo river, which appears in ancient documents as the Macorix river. There is debate as to whether the name is of Carib, Arawakan, or Ciguayo origin.

San Pedro de Macorís has been poetically referred to as "Macorís...

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