Jarabacoa

Jarabacoa It is a city in the province of La Vega, Dominican Republic

Jarabacoa had been a territory inhabited by the native population of the island. These Taino settlers called it by that name. During the conquest of the island, the Spanish were present in their search for gold ^[ 3 ] although they later abandoned the area. At the beginning of the 19th century, a massive population process took place as a consequence of the first Haitian invasions of the Spanish part of the Island, namely, that of François Dominique Toussaint-Louverture , in 1801, and that of Jean-Jacques Dessalines , in 1805. When La Vega was burned and destroyed by Dessalines in 1805, many of its inhabitants took refuge in the mountains of Jarabacoa where they later stayed to live.