SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS WAS FOUNDED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY BY CUBANS WHO WERE FLEEING THEIR COUNTRY'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. THEY BROUGHT THEIR EXTENSIVE SUGAR CANE FARMING KNOWLEDGE AND CONTRIBUTED TO MAKING THE SUGAR INDUSTRY THE MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THIS AREA. SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS REACHED ITS PEAK DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS CENTURY, WHEN ITS SUGAR PRODUCTION ENJOYED HIGH PRICES ON THE INTERNATIONAL MARKET AS A RESULT OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. MANY EUROPEANS SETTLED HERE, MAKING IT A VERY COSMOPOLITIAN URBAN CENTER. PAN AMERICAN FLEW ITS SEAPLANES IN REGULARLY (EASTERN MACORIS HAS PRIVILEGE OF BEING THE FIRST DOMINICAN CITY TO RECEIVE SEAPLANES, IN ITS HIGUAMO RIVER), AT A TIME WHEN THIS PORT ENJOYED MORE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITY THAN THE CAPITAL CITY OF SANTO DOMINGO.
SAN PEDRO MACORIS PIONEERED MANY AREAS SUCH AS THE FIRST FIREFIGHTING CORPS, THE FIRST NATIONAL BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP, THE FIRST TOWN TO HAVE TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CENTERS, THE FIRST RACETRACK AND THE FIRST BOXING COLISEUM, AMONG OTHERS. THE FIRST SUGAR FACTORY WAS FOUNDED BY JUAN AMECHAZURA, MILLING FOR THE FIRST TIME ON JANUARY, 9 1879
ACCORDING TO BASEBALL REFERENCE, 70 PLAYERS TOTAL IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL HISTORY WERE BORN IN SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. SOME OF THOSE PLAYERS ARE SAMMY SOSA, ALFONSO SORIANO, ROBINSON CANO AND MANY OTHERS. THE CITY IF OFTEN REFERRED TO AS "THE CRADLE OF SHORTSTOPS"
ARTIST/SONG PLAYING IN THE BACKGROUND IS CUBAN LINK - BLEED (DIPSET ANTHEM BEAT)
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Autor: DominicanKIDdDRDescripcion: SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS WAS FOUNDED IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY BY CUBANS WHO WERE FLEEING THEIR COUNTRY'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. THEY BROUGHT THEIR EXTENSIVE SUGAR CANE FARMING KNOWLEDGE AND CONTRIBUTED TO MAKING THE SUGAR INDUSTRY THE MOST IMPORTANT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN THIS AREA. SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS REACHED ITS PEAK DURING THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS CEN...
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