In the pre colonial age, the island of Quisqueya ( Mother of all the lands) and later renamed Hispaniola, was inhabited from a population called “Taino”, that in the aboriginal language meant “good” ”noble”. On the 5 of December 1492, Cristoforo Colombo disembarked on the island that became a Spanish colony.

The Spanish domination was an exploitation of the natural riches of the country and of its inhabitants with a very strong regime of slavery that provoked a collapse of their physical conditions and hope in a future Mostly of the Taino killed themselves, as the only escape from slavery. With the introduction of intensive working of the sugar cane, began the draft of the black slaves from Africa, as the Taino were practically extinguished.

In 1600 mostly of the population moved lo live near the capital, Santo Domingo, to escape to the continuous threats of the pirates. This caused a general impoverishment of the economy and allowed the pirates to occupy the west part of the Dominican Republic and to organize their attacks to the ships coming and going to Europe.

In the end of 1800, in the western part of the island, a rebellion of slaves signed the independence of Haiti, a French colony, from the mother-country. Napoleon sent a military shipment for the reconquest, but failed and it was declared a definitive independence and the abolition of slavery.

The Dominican Republic, after a short independence, in 1822 was invaded and dominated by Haiti, until 1844 when a popular revolt guided from Juan Pablo Duarte brought back the independence. The new state was under the protection of United States, France and England but in front of the risk of an invasion from the United States, in 1860 signed for a readmission to Spain. This caused another rebellion that ended with a new independence. Starting from 1863 the presidents were elected in a democratic way, until when the United States, in order to defend their economic interests on the island, in 1930 supported the dictator Trujillo. He governed hardly and slaughtered great part of the Haitians, giving back the lands to the Dominicans.

He was killed in 1961 from a conspiracy and his following Joaquin Balaguer tried to keep the government but Juan Bosch Gavino, the founder of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) gained the election. His politics were not accepted from the United States, that intervened militarily and in 1965 was elected Joaquin Balaguer that governed till 1978 and later from 1984 to 1996.In the interval governed the Dominican Revolutionary Party. This political instability provoked disastrous economic consequences preventing the development of the country.

THE DEMOGRAPHY
The population of the Dominican Republic amounts approximately to nine millions of inhabitants. Mostly of them live in Santo Domingo, the capital and in the other towns, while only one third live in the countries and dedicate themselves to the agricultural cultivations.

The inhabitants are mainly mulattos ,born from the union of Europeans, in prevalence Spanish, with Africans. The culture is Hispanic but has American and African influences. The official religion is Catholicism, but there is also a strong presence of the Evangelic church.

CARIBE PARK
“Playa Marina” is pleased to announce the opening of the new residence “Caribe Park”. It is located next to ”Playa Marina” and as the name suggests, it is in front of the public park that represents the heart of the town and the preferred meeting point of citizens and tourists. The new structure, modern, spacious, dipped in a tropical garden, has wide and luminous apartments, available with one or two bedrooms, kitchen and a comfortable sofa bed in the living room.

The apartments are equipped with air conditioning system, international television and safety box. Daily cleaning and change of linen and towels are included.

The furnishings, made with natural wood and bamboo, are hand made, to obtain the maximum advantage of the spaces and to create a warm and welcoming atmosphere.

It is possible to enjoy at the same time the comfort of a hotel and the peace and the convenience of a house. For this, ”Caribe Park” is recommended also for a long stay. At the moment are valid the same rates of “Playa Marina”.