Salcedo, Dominican Republic

The Dominican city of **Salcedo** is the head municipality of the Hermanas Mirabal province, on the central part of the country.

## Name

The city is named after _Francisco Antonio Salcedo_ who fought in the northwestern part of the country against the Haitian army during the Dominican-Haitian War after the Dominican independence from Haiti in 1844.

## Population

The municipality had, in , a total population of 35,306: 17,683 men and 17,623 women. The urban population was  of the total population.

## History

In the place where is now the city of Salcedo there was a very small town with the name of _Juana Núñez_. It was made a _Puesto cantonal_ (an old category that now is called Municipal District) in 1880 as part of the old La Vega province.

With the creation of the Espaillat province in 1885, Juana Núñez was made part of this new province. In 1891, its name was changed from Juana Núñez to the present one, Salcedo.

Salcedo was made a municipality in 1905 and, when the Salcedo Province (now Hermanas Mirabal Province) was created in 1952, the city became the head municipality of the new province.

## Geography

Salcedo in the Cibao valley, south of the Cordillera Septentrional ("Northern mountain range") and has a total area of . It has only one municipal district (a subdivision of a municipality): Jamao Afuera.

The city of Salcedo is at  to the north of Santo Domingo and at  to the east of Moca. It is at an elevation of  above sea level.

The municipality is  in the eastern part of the country, just to the south of the _Cordillera Oriental_ (in English, "Eastern mountain range") in the region known as _Llano Costero del Caribe_ (in English, "Caribbean Coastal Plain").

Salcedo has the municipality of Villa Tapia to the south, the Espaillat province to the west and north and the municipality of Tenares to the east.

### Climate

Salcedo has a tropical wet climate (Köppen climate classification : **Af**), with no dry or cold season as it is constantly moist.

The average amount of rainfall for the year in the city is . Most rains fall during the end of summer and in fall. The month with the most precipitation on average is November with  of rainfall, followed by May with .

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

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

## Administrative division

The municipality of Salcedo has only one municipal districts:

|Code|Municipal district|Population <small>(2010)</small>|
| --- | --- | --- |
|190102|Jamao Afuera|4,251|

## Economy

Farming is the only economic activity in the municipality, except for some very small industries; the main products are plantain, cassava and cacao.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Salcedo
- **settlement type**: Municipality
- **pushpin map**: Dominican Republic
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Province
- **subdivision name1**: Hermanas Mirabal Province, Hermanas Mirabal
- **subdivision type2**: Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Municipal Districts
- **subdivision name2**: 1
- **established title2**: Municipality since
- **established date2**:
1905
- **area total km2**: 84.2
- **elevation m**: 196
- **population total**: 35306
- **total type**: Total
- **population urban**: 13803
- **population density km2**: auto
- **population demonym**: Salcedense
- **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 Moca, Dominican Republic, Moca
 to Santo Domingo