Los Mina

Los Mina
Los Mina
	Los Mina
	Coordinates: 18°30′N 69°59′W
Country	Dominican Republic
City	Santo Domingo Este
Province	Santo Domingo
Government
• Mayor	Alfredo Martinez “El Cañero”
Area
• Total	105.41 km2 (40.70 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Total	104,846
• Density	5,981.46/km2 (15,491.9/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-4 UTC
• Summer (DST)	UTCNone
Website	https://web.archive.org/web/20090107033827/http://www.asde.gov.do/

Los Mina (in full: San Lorenzo de Los Mina) is a Sector in the city of Santo Domingo Este in the province of Santo Domingo of the Dominican Republic. Los Mina was part of Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional. Santo Domingo Este was created as municipality in 2001 by law 163-01 splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional 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, Urbanización Italia.[1]

It was founded as a village for formerly French-enslaved maroons 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 French language as Saint-Laurent des Mines.

Sources

Santo Domingo Este Municipality

References

El Congreso Nacional. "Ley No. 163-01 que crea la provincia de Santo Domingo, y modifica los Artículos 1 y 2 de la Ley No. 5220, sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2007-03-08.

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[1] El Congreso Nacional. "Ley No. 163-01 que crea la provincia de Santo Domingo, y modifica los Artículos 1 y 2 de la Ley No. 5220, sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2007-03-08.