Yaguate

Yaguate is a town and municipality (municipio) of the San Cristóbal province in the south region of Dominican Republic. Yaguate is located about 48 km (30 miles) from the city of San Cristóbal near the DR-2 that goes to Baní.

==History== On the western banks of the Nizao River at the end of the 16th century, the Spanish captain Juan Tello de Guzmán established the Yaguate settlement. The early settlers were dedicated to raising cattle and were not dedicated to the cultivation of agricultural products with an agro-industrial vocation, as were the mills in which a slave structure allowed the growth of a different society. thumb|right|Trinitarios statue in Yaguate, Dominican Republic. The rancher settlements were places where families lived whose main occupation consisted of raising horses and cutting wood. While the mill required a large amount of labor for its proper functioning, in the ranch the massive use of the slave was not necessary, which is why homogeneous human settlements arose in their surroundings where the Spanish were a majority.