Jánico

Jánico

Jánico

Place in Santiago, Dominican Republic

Jánico (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈxaniko]) is a municipality (municipio) of the Santiago province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there are two municipal districts (distritos municipal): El Caimito and Juncalito.[5]

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Christopher Columbus established a stockade here in March 1494, to protect his gold mining ambitions. The prospectivity of gold was established earlier in the year by Alonso de Ojeda's expedition.[6]

Jánico is part of a region known as the Sierra (Spanish: La Sierra; pronounced [la ˈsjera]). This region was peopled in the 18th century mostly by ethnic Canarians and French who established a markedly endogamous society in which cousin marriages were fairly common, in order to preserve their whiteness; only a very few were slaveholders. The Sierra received a sizeable amount of white and mulatto refugees from both Saint-Domingue and the Cibao Valley, the former during the Haitian Revolution and the latter amid the Dominican genocide by the Haitian army in 1805.[7][8]

According to a 2016 genealogical DNA testing by the Genographic Project, the town has the highest percentage of both European and pre-Columbian heritages in the island, at 61.5% and 7.8%, respectively, while the African input (including non-black North Africans) was numbered at 29.6%, the second lowest.[9]

For comparison with other municipalities and municipal districts see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

References

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    Pérez, Narciso (16 August 2016). "PLD dominará seis de los 10 municipios que tiene Santiago" (in Spanish). Santiago: Diario Libre. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
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    Superficies a nivel de municipios, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Archived April 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
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    "Santo Tomás de Jánico". Google Maps. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
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    "Resumen resultados generales Censo 2010" (PDF) (in Spanish). Oficina Nacional de Estadística. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 October 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
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    Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos. "Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on August 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-01-24.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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    Floyd, Troy (1973). The Columbus Dynasty in the Caribbean, 1492-1526. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 23–24.
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    Espinal Hernández, Edwin R. (28 August 2010). "Población, endogamia y consanguinidad. Genealogía en la Sierra de San José de Las Matas" (in Spanish). Instituto Dominicano de Genealogía. Retrieved 16 May 2015.
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    Hernández González, Manuel V. (2007). Expansión fundacional y crecimiento en el norte dominicano (1680-1795): El Cibao y la Bahía de Samaná (in Spanish). Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación; Academia Dominicana de la Historia. ISBN 978-9945-020-12-0.
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    "Dominicano promedio tiene 49% ADN africano, 39% europeo, y 4% precolombino" [Average Dominican's DNA is 49% African, 39% European, and 4% pre-Columbian]. Acento.com.do (in Spanish). 5 July 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.


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