San Juan Province (Dominican Republic)

**San Juan** is a Dominican province, in the western part of the country. Its capital city is San Juan de la Maguana.

## Name

The province is named after its capital city, San Juan de la Maguana. San Juan is short for San Juan Bautista (_Saint John the Baptist_).

## History

Since colonial times, the territory was part of Azua province until the dictator, Rafael Trujillo, made this province in 1938 with the name Benefactor with the municipalities of Las Matas de Farfán y El Cercado. Bohechío was made a municipality in 1974, Vallejuelo in 1978 and Juan de Herrera in 1992.

In 1998, Matayaya became a municipal district; Pedro Corto in 2000; Sabaneta, Arroyo Cano and Yaque in 2004; Carrera de Yeguas, Sabana Alta, El Rosario, Hato del Padre, Guanito, La Jagua, Derrumbadero and Batista in 2005; Las Maguanas-Hato Nuevo, Las Charcas de María Nova, Jinova and Jorjillo in 2006; and Las Zanjas in 2007.

## Location

The San Juan province has Santiago Rodríguez and Santiago provinces to the north, Azua province (and a short part of La Vega) to the east, Baoruco province to the south and Elías Piña province to the west.

## Population

In  (last national census), there were  people living in the San Juan province, and 139,620 () living in towns and cities. The population density was  persons/km².

Its population represents  of the total population of the country and the province is ranked as the 11th (out of 31 plus the National District) more populated province.

, the total estimated propulation of the province is 226,484 inhabitants.

The largest city of the province is San Juan de la Maguana, its head municipality or capital, with an urban population (in ) of 71,494 inhabitants.

## Geography

The San Juan province has a total area of . It has  of the area of the Dominican Republic and it is ranked as the 1st (out of 31 plus the National District) largest province.

The altitude of the provincial capital, San Juan de la Maguana, is  above sea level.

### Mountains

The _Cordillera Central_ ("Central mountain chain") is in the northern part of the province, and the _Sierra de Neiba_ runs across the southern half. The area between those two mountain ranges is the San Juan valley, which the Taínos call _Maguana_, meaning "small valley".

The highest mountain in the province is _Pico Duarte_, with 3,087 m. It is the highest mountain in the West Indies and is on the border with Santiago province.

### Rivers

The main rivers of the province are the San Juan and Yaque del Sur rivers.

### Climate

The climate of the province is a tropical climate, hot most of the year, but it is cooler in the mountains.

## Municipalities

There are 6 municipalities and 17 municipal districts (M.D.) in the province.

|Municipality (code) !! Municipal Districts (code) !! Population <small>(2010)</small> !! Area <small>(km<sup>2</sup>)</small> !! Density !! Altitude <small>(m)</small>||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|San Juan de la Maguana (220101)|78,313|248.6||418||
||Pedro Corto (220102)|6,891|146.3||506|
||Sabaneta (220103)|5,621|480.4||706|
||Sabana Alta (220104)|3,241|31.4||368|
||El Rosario (220105)|7,426|204.9||381|
||Hato del Padre (220106)|5,811|58.8||470|
||Guanito (220107)|3,670|83.3||384|
||La Jagua (220108)|3,855|69.2||592|
||Las Maguanas-Hato Nuevo (220109)|5,192|72.1||523|
||Las Charcas de María Nova (220110)|3,166|86.8||545|
||Las Zanjas (220111)|8,991|246.0||79|
|**San Juan de la Maguana** (220100)|132,177|1,728.0||||
|Bohechío (220201)|2,394|1.5||519||
||Arroyo Cano (220202)|3,109|61.3||625|
||Yaque (220203)|4,182|343.3||512|
|**Bohechío** (220200)|9,685|406.1||||
|El Cercado (220301)|13,611|169.6||825||
||Derrumbadero (220302)|4,918|62.8||915|
||Batista (220303)|2,314|45.6||976|
|**El Cercado** (220300))|20,843|278.0||||
|Juan de Herrera (220401)|8,235|46.5||514||
||Jínova (220402)|4,827|46.4||478|
|**Juan de Herrera** (220400))|13,062|92.9||||
|Las Matas de Farfán (220501)|34,481|350.3||445||
||Matayaya (220502)|4,267|115.8||409|
||Carrera de Yeguas (220503)|5,415|170.9||490|
|**Las Matas de Farfán** (220500))|44,163|637.1||||
|Vallejuelo (220601)|9,725|151.5||643||
||Jorjillo (220602)|2,678|70.2||829|
|**Vallejuelo** (220600))|12,403|221.7||||
|**San Juan** (220000)||3,363.8||||

## Economy

The main economic activity of the province is farming; the main products are rice, maize, peanut, sorghum and beans.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: San Juan
- **settlement type**: Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Province
- **image skyline**: File:Triumphbogen(Arco del triunfo).jpg
- **image size**: 300px
- **image caption**: Entrance to the town of San Juan.
- **nickname**: El Granero del Sur (_The Barn of The South_)
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **image map**: File:San Juan in Dominican Republic.svg
- **map caption**: Location of the San Juan Province
- **leader title1**: Congress of the Dominican Republic, Congresspersons
- **leader name1**: 1 Senator
5 Deputies
- **government type**: Subdivisions
- **governing body**: 6 Municipality, municipalities
17 List of municipalities of the Dominican Republic#Administration, municipal districts
- **seat**: San Juan de la Maguana
- **seat type**: Capital
- **established title**: Province since
- **established date**: 1938
- **area total km2**: 3569.39
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset1**: -4
- **blank name**: Area code
- **blank info**: 1-809 1-829 1-849
- **blank1 name**: ISO 3166-2
- **blank1 info**: DO-22
- **blank2 name**: Postal Code
- **blank2 info**: 72000