Los Mina

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Los Mina
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Los Mina
Coordinates: 18°30′N69°59′W / 18.500°N 69.983°W / 18.500; -69.983
Country Dominican Republic
City Santo Domingo Este
Province Santo Domingo
Government
  MayorDío Astacio
Area
  Total
105.41 km2 (40.70 sq mi)
Population
 (2008)
  Total
104,846
  Density5,981.46/km2 (15,491.9/sq mi)
Time zone UTC-4 UTC
  Summer (DST) UTCNone
Website https://web.archive.org/web/20090107033827/http://www.asde.gov.do/

Los Mina (in full: San Lorenzo de Los Mina) is a sector in the city of Santo Domingo Este in the province of Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic. Los Mina was part of Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional. Santo Domingo Este was created as municipality in 2001 by law 163-01, splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional with Santo Domingo Este taking the other sectors of Alma Rosa I, Alma Rosa II, El Almirante, Hainamosa, Invivienda, Lucerna, Mendoza, Ozama, Ralma, San Isidro, Sans Sousi, and Urbanización Italia. [1] [2]

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It was founded as a village for formerly French-enslaved maroons in the late-1670s as San Lorenzo de los Negros de Mina, later shortened to San Lorenzo de Los Mina. During the 1822–44 Haitian occupation, the village was officially designated in the French language as Saint-Laurent des Mines. [3]

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  1. El Congreso Nacional. "Ley No. 163-01 que crea la provincia de Santo Domingo, y modifica los Artículos 1 y 2 de la Ley No. 5220, sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
  2. Nacional, El (2018-07-23). "Los Minas o Los Mina ¿Qué es lo correcto?". El Nacional (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  3. "África en Santo Domingo: Los mina o los minas". Acento (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-13.