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23. SALCEDO.
This small, virtually undeveloped province has Villa Tapia and Tenares as
its principle towns. The main claim
to fame is that it was the home province of the Hermanas Mirabal, whom Trujillo
had assassinated—read Julia Alvarez’s In
the Time of the Butterflies, which tells the whole story and is one of the
most engaging books ever written about the Dominican Republic. There
is a museum dedicated to the Hermanas Mirabal in Ojo de Agua.
Agriculture in the region centers around coffee and cacao (chocolate).
