Haina The Township is located in the province of San Cristobal. Finding header located between the City of St. Kitts and Itabo Creek to the west and the city of Santo Domingo East. The municipality is bordered on the northwest by the Haina River, and south by the Caribbean Sea. Haina covers an area of \u200b\u200b39.90 square miles spread over two (2) sections and sixteen (16) Sites. History Haina's history dates back to colonial times. According to reports, a Haina was Miguel Diaz, a Hispanic who emigrated from La Isabela, America's first town in the north of the island, having wounded a fellow intimately related to the English authorities, joining in marriage with an Indian woman named Catherine, who reported the existence of a gold deposit on the west bank of the Rio Haina.
After confirming the existence of the precious metal back to La Isabela, giving information event the Admiral Don Christopher Columbus and his brother Bartholomew. The Admiral sent his brother to check the existence of the mine, as it was to leave for Spain. Don Bartholomew realized that there really was gold, so he decided to build a fort was called San Cristobal or Buenaventura, where they stayed the soldiers who took part in that feat. According to the same story in 1502 on the west bank of Rio Haina, some eight kilometers from the town of Villa Altagracia, in the place known as Madrigal, there was a large gold nugget. The Golden Fleece found was sent to Spain and who was driving the ship sank dying at the crossing Francisco Bobadilla, former Governor, the Chief Guarionex and dozens of English.
Haina today has become a dynamic population, which is about twenty kilometers from the capital, and the town has become a strong pillar of the Dominican economy. It has a modern port where many ships arrive and depart, some bringing imports and other leading much of the agricultural and industrial production both in the country. Economy
Haina has two industrial parks in which many people earn their livelihood. In its territory the Dominican Petroleum Refinery, which also produces gasoline, diesel, gas, kerosene and other petroleum products for domestic and industrial consumption.
also has the facilities of Rio Haina mill, built by the dictator Trujillo, considered by many to mean the second world's largest mill, which grinds the cane produced in this and other areas, such as Yamasa, Monte Plata , Bayaguana, Sabana Grande de Boya and San Cristobal. There
on the western bank of the Port of Haina's energy park Corporación Dominicana de Electricidad - CDE-producing much of the electric power consumed in the country. In 1964 the shipping company Sea Land Services, an American company settled there, bringing the modernization of port activities, with the mechanization of cargo. The Sea Land receives weekly furgoneros ships from American ports of America and other West Indian islands.
Haina there in a resort, with hundreds of single-person households, with amenities for groups of tourists go to relax and forget about the hustle and bustle.
Haina's people has grown because of the large influx of people who go there to work on both the port and in existing industrial enterprises. Haina starts in the pipeline that takes oil to the facilities of the mining firm Falconbridge Dominicana, in Bonao, traveling more than fifty miles. Another pipeline starts from the Dominican Petroleum Refinery to Punta Palenque, where giant tankers to unload crude oil refinery and develop the plant that comes from oil wells in Mexico and Venezuela. The latter is an area of \u200b\u200b40 kilometers.
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