Los Mina (in full: San Lorenzo de Los Mina) is a sector in the city of

Santo Domingo Este Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. It has one municipal district (''distrito municipal''), San Luis. Santo Domingo Este is across the Ozama River which divides ...

in the province of Santo Domingo of the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean. It shares a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and ...

. Los Mina was part of

Santo Domingo Santo Domingo, formerly known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. the Distrito Na ...

Distrito Nacional The Distrito Nacional (; D.N.) is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not in any of the provinces, but in practice, it acts as a province on its own. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional wa ...

. Santo Domingo Este was created as municipality in 2001 by law 163-01, splitting the Santo Domingo province from the

with Santo Domingo Este taking the other sectors of Alma Rosa I, Alma Rosa II, El Almirante, Hainamosa, Invivienda, Lucerna, Mendoza, Ozama, Ralma, San Isidro, Sans Sousi, and Urbanización Italia. It was founded as a village for formerly French-enslaved

maroons Maroons are descendants of Africans in the Americas and islands of the Indian Ocean who escaped from slavery, through flight or manumission, and formed their own settlements. They often mixed with Indigenous peoples, eventually evolving into ...

in the late-1670s as San Lorenzo de los Negros de Mina, later shortened to San Lorenzo de Los Mina. During the 1822–44 Haitian occupation, the village was officially designated in the French language as Saint-Laurent des Mines.

Notable people

Monkey Black Leonardo Michael Flores Ozuna (Los Mina, 26 July 1986 – 30 April 2014 San Adrián de Besós), known by his stage name Monkey Black, was a singer of urban music from the Dominican Republic. Early life Flores was born in Los Mina, Santo Domin ...

, (1986–2014) Rapper, he was murdered in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona in 2014. *

Gilbert Lenin Castillo Gilbert Lenin Castillo Rivera (born August 21, 1988) is a Dominican professional boxer who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Early and personal life Castillo was born on August 21, 1988, in Santo Domingo. He boxed for the Julito López Clu ...

, professional boxer who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. *

Lápiz Conciente Avelino Junior Figueroa Rodríguez (born January 24, 1983), known musically as Lápiz Conciente (Lit. "Conscious Pencil"), is a Dominican rapper. He is described as one of the pioneers of Hip hop in the Dominican Republic. In 2013 he was nominate ...

("Conscious Pen") is a Dominican rapper who refers to himself as "El Papa del Rap Dominicano" ("the father of Dominican rap) after sending Mozar la para to the retired in peace. *

Hansel Emmanuel Hansel Enmanuel Donato Domínguez, known as Hansel Enmanuel, (born 24 October 2003) is a Dominican college basketball player for the Austin Peay Governors of the Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN). He played high school basketball at Life Christian ...

, a college basketball player known for his impressive skills despite having only one arm.

Sources

Santo Domingo Este Municipality

References

Santo Domingo Este Populated places in Santo Domingo Province {{DominicanRepublic-geo-stub