Boca Chica

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Boca Chica
Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 18°27′14″N69°36′23″W / 18.45389°N 69.60639°W / 18.45389; -69.60639
CountryFlag of the Dominican Republic.svg  Dominican Republic
Province Santo Domingo
Incorporated 2001
Government
[1] [2]
 • Mayor Radhamés Castro (Liberal Reformist Party)
Area
[3]
 • Total145.67 km2 (56.24 sq mi)
Population
 (2012) [4]
 • Total123,510
 • Density850/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
 •  Urban
53,326
Municipal Districts
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Boca Chica is a municipality ( municipio ) of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district (distritos municipal): La Caleta. [5] As of the 2012 census it had 123,510 inhabitants, 70,184 living in the city itself and 53,326 in its rural districts (Secciones). [4]

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Boca Chica has a popular beach with the same name, located about 30 kilometers east of Santo Domingo de Guzmán in the south-east region of the country. [6]

History

The community of Boca Chica was founded in 1779 during the government of Brigadier Don Isidro Peralta y Rojas with the name of San José de los Llanos. Boca Chica was later developed by Dominican businessman and politician Juan Bautista Vicini Burgos, who established sugar plantations there in the early 1900s. Vicini was very fond of the place but the golden era of Boca Chica came decades later in the 1950s, when dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo ordered the construction of a modern hotel named "Hotel Hamaca", which subsequently became an icon in the area. The hotel became more famous after Trujillo granted political asylum to the dictator Fulgencio Batista after the Cuban Revolution. During the 1950s and the 1960s, prominent families of the Dominican Republic built several summer properties along the beach only accessible by private transportation.

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Boca Chica beach panorama view.

After the 1970s, the beach became increasingly more popular and public transportation helped to make Boca Chica a very crowded place; it was no longer a secluded beach for the elites as it had been during the '50s and '60s. The Hamaca hotel was closed after Hurricane David in 1979, and it remained closed and abandoned for years which caused an economic decline in the area. It was later reopened and the public beach remains popular among people of different classes.

Geography

Boca Chica's proximity to the city of Santo Domingo, its clear blue waters and white sand have made it one of the busiest beaches in the Dominican Republic, especially on weekends and holidays, because it is 30 km away from Santo Domingo. Boca Chica has two small islands Los Pinos, which were made with sand from the dredging of the Andrés port in the 1950s and La Matica and La Piedra, mangrove cays, submerged vascular plants and habitat for various species of birds. The beach has a natural breakwater, as well as a fresh water spring, coming from the Brujuelas underground river.

Characteristics

Villa Florencia hotel in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic. Building with Crane and Street Paintings - Boca Chica - Dominican Republic.jpg
Villa Florencia hotel in Boca Chica, Dominican Republic.

The short distance from the capital city (19 miles), the crystalline waters and the white sands turned Boca Chica into the most crowded beach of the Dominican Republic, especially on weekends and holidays. Boca Chica beach has immaculate fine sand. You can walk in the water and the depth will barely change, the water will be to your waist (or a little bit over) all the time. Boca Chica has two small islands, Los Pinos and La Matica, and two marinas.

There are several bars, restaurants, pizza stands, souvenirs stalls and loud music throughout most of the day; all this along the beach sand very close to the shore. In the evening, Boca Chica transforms itself into a town of party bars. [7]

Notable people

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Radhamés Castro ya es el nuevo alcalde de Boca Chica" (in Spanish). Boca Chica: Diario Digital RD. 17 August 2016. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  2. ↑ "Radhamés Castro asegura será el nuevo alcalde de Boca Chica 2016- 2020" (in Spanish). Boca Chica: El Nacional. 24 December 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  3. ↑ Superficies a nivel de municipios, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Archived April 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  4. 1 2 Censo 2012 de Población y Vivienda, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica
  5. ↑ 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 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
  6. ↑ Jul 10, Publicado por Amaury Mo |; Turismo | 0, 2019 | (2019-07-10). "Historia de la Playa de Boca Chica Ensegundos República Dominicana". Ensegundos.do (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-04-21.{{cite web}}: |first2= has numeric name (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  7. ↑ "In Dominican Republic seaside village, a virtual supermarket of sex" . Retrieved 2013-02-03.
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