Monción

**Monción** is a city and municipality of the Santiago Rodríguez province, in northwestern Dominican Republic. Its old name was _Guaraguanó_, a Taíno name that sometimes is used. The Municipio of Monción was founder by Joaquin Izquierdo, Anastasio Valle, Tomás Genao, Luis José Saldá, Dionicio Bueno y Siriaco Peralta.

## History

The town was founded by people that came to look for gold in the Mao river and other rivers of the region. Later, some families came to live here to cut the many trees, mainly pines, that were around the town.

On 9 April 1884, it was created the _Puesto Cantonal de Guaraguanó_ in the Monte Cristi province. "Puesto Cantonal" was similar to a municipality; in English, "County (Military) Post". On 23 March 1898, the name of _Guaraguanó_ was changed to the present name, _Monción_, in honor of _Benito Monción_, one of the heroes of the Restoration War against Spain.

When the Santiago Rodríguez province was created in 1948, Monción was one of the municipalities of that new province.

## Population

The municipality had, in , a total population of 11,753: 6,069 men and 5,684 women. The urban population was  of the total population.

## Geography

Monción is on the northern side of the _Cordillera Central_ ("Central mountain range") and has a total area of , about  of the total area of the province of Santiago Rodríguez. The city is an elevation of , and at  to the southeast of Sabaneta, the capital of the province.

It does not have any municipal district (a municipal district is a subdivision of a municipality).

The municipality of Monción has the Valverde province to the north, the Santiago province to the west and south, and the municipality of Sabaneta to the west.

### Climate

Monción has a tropical wet and dry/savanna climate (Köppen-Geiger classification: **Aw**) with a pronounced dry season in winter.

The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . The month with the most precipitation on average is May with  of rainfall, followed by October with .

The driest season is winter. The month with the least rainfall on average is January with an average of  and the second is February with .

Monción is in a warm region; the average temperature for the year is . The warmest month, on average, is August with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

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## Economy

The main economic activity of the municipality is farming. Monción is the centre of production of _casabe_ (a kind of bread, of Taíno origin, made with the flour of manioc).

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Monción
- **settlement type**: Municipality
- **pushpin map**: Dominican Republic
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Province
- **subdivision name1**: Santiago Rodríguez Province, Santiago Rodríguez
- **established title**: Founded
- **established title2**: Municipality since
- **established date2**: 1948
- **parts type**: Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Municipal Districts
- **parts style**: para
- **parts**: None
- **area total km2**: 138.9
- **elevation m**: 364
- **population total**: 11753
- **total type**: Total
- **population urban**: 7936
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population demonym**: Moncionero
(female, moncionera)
- **timezone**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset**: -4
- **timezone dst**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset dst**: -4
- **blank name sec1**: Distance
- **blank info sec1**: to Sabaneta, Santiago Rodríguez, Sabaneta