San Ignacio de Sabaneta, Santiago Rodriguez Province, Cibao Region, The Dominican Republic

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🇩🇴 San Ignacio de Sabaneta is the capital and a municipality of Santiago Rodriguez in the north-western part of the Dominican Republic. It is usually called only Sabaneta or Santiago Rodríguez.

History The town was founded in 1844 by Santiago Rodríguez and the brothers, Alejandro and José Bueno. The city laid in the centre of a small savanna, in Spanish, Sabaneta. In 1854, the town was elevated to the category of Military Post and in 1858 it was incorporated into a municipality of the Santiago province.

Sabaneta was the centre of the fight against the Spanish soldiers during the Restoration War (1863–1865).

When 1879 Monte Cristi became a province, San Ignacio de Sabaneta was made a municipality of that new province. When the new province of Santiago Rodríguez was created in 1948, San Ignacio de Sabaneta was made the head municipality of the province.

Economy The main economic activities of the municipality are tobacco, hides and milk.

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San Ignacio de Sabaneta has a population of over 98,453 people. San Ignacio de Sabaneta also forms part of the wider Santiago Rodríguez Province which has a population of over 259,629 people. For the location of San Ignacio de Sabaneta see: Sabaneta.

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Antipodal to San Ignacio de Sabaneta is: 108.65,-19.483

Locations Near: San Ignacio de Sabaneta -71.35,19.4833

🇩🇴 Sabaneta -71.35,19.483 d: 0  

🇩🇴 Santa Cruz de Mao -71.083,19.567 d: 29.4  

🇩🇴 Mao -71.083,19.567 d: 29.4  

🇩🇴 Dajabón -71.7,19.567 d: 37.8  

🇩🇴 Monte Cristi -71.65,19.867 d: 53  

🇩🇴 San Fernando de Monte Cristi -71.65,19.867 d: 53  

🇭🇹 Fort-Liberté -71.833,19.667 d: 54.6  

🇩🇴 Santiago -70.704,19.461 d: 67.8  

🇩🇴 Santiago de los Caballeros -70.695,19.459 d: 68.8  

🇭🇹 Trou-du-Nord -72.017,19.633 d: 71.8  

Antipodal to: San Ignacio de Sabaneta 108.65,-19.483

🇮🇩 Cilacap 109,-7.733 d: 18708  

🇮🇩 Pangandaran 108.657,-7.697 d: 18704.5  

🇮🇩 Parigi 108.533,-7.683 d: 18702.9  

🇮🇩 Yogyakarta 110.35,-7.8 d: 18703.1  

🇮🇩 Purworejo 110.03,-7.722 d: 18698.9  

🇮🇩 Kebumen 109.661,-7.671 d: 18697.1  

🇮🇩 Tulungagung 111.9,-8.067 d: 18698.2  

🇮🇩 Sleman 110.357,-7.72 d: 18694.1  

🇮🇩 Banyumas 109.35,-7.6 d: 18691.6  

🇮🇩 Blitar 112.15,-8.1 d: 18694.3  

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