Nigua San Gregorio, Caribbean Sea coastal territory of the municipality headboard of the San Cristóbal province adopted by name Nigua the Indian word which was attributed to one of the rivers of the southern slopes of the Republic Dominica. This area for its proximity to the city of Santo Domingo, capital of the republic, and by the dynamics of its development, has witnessed important historical events framed in different processes that have been triggered since the conquest and colonization of the island to the present.
the case of the Dominican Republic the term Nigua assumes at least four meanings: Bug that is inserted under the skin and nails of humans, causing intense burning or small fruit. River on the southern slope rises in the Cordillera Central of the site near the town of Banana in Cambita Garabitos and empties into the Caribbean Sea (and North River tributary of the Yuna watershed that runs through the town in the province of Duarte Castillo .)
In seeking to unravel the historical events in what is now Nigua, the researcher will be difficult, because since the sixteenth century to the first five years of the third decade of the nineteenth century was known by the name of the Party of Wits Nigua space southeast region including east-west between the rivers and Nizao Haina, bounded on the north by the Cordillera Central and south by the Caribbean Sea. So when any of the sources referred to Nigua, the event in question if it applies to that period may have occurred somewhere in San Cristobal province than the current territory of the San Gregorio de Nigua. Limits
creek on the east by the west Itabo
the Freshwater Creek and sections of New Ingenio North
Sainaguá for Arroyo Seco and the section of Hatillo.
the south by the Caribbean Sea. History
Nigua was inserted into the Universal History with the beginning of the colonial sugar industry was the economic activity around which legitimated slave relations of production from 1515, after the failure of Columbus factory followed by the decay of the parcels.
colonial sugar industry has been studied extensively by various national and foreign historians. Monitoring the works of it, in case the country and all America, was the Bachiller Gonzalo de Veloso, who was a encomendero and weighed the sugar industry could be successful, because in the years immediately following 1515 the European sugar prices had increased. So he ventured into an investment that included the import of experts (teachers) from the Canary Islands to devote to the task of producing sugar in the first mill that met the new world.
The horse mill Nigua installed at the time constituted the most modern industrial America, even for a short time, since the same Gonzalo Veloso, associated with the brothers Christopher and Francisco de Tapia built in La Jagua de Yaguate a hydraulic mill was later relocated on the banks of river Nigua after being sold that part of the brothers Velosa Tapia, Christopher sold his share to John Vitoria, who in turn sold, finally becoming the sole owner Francisco de Tapia.
The first mill installation was very timely, with the same socio-economic, political and demographic prevailing on the island found a way to solve.
The success of the mill of Velosa led the start of an accelerated process of industrialization that he gave an unprecedented dynamic ¨ the English colony, which would only be overcome after three decades of the nineteenth century. Conditions that a substantial change in the ethnic composition of the island was crystallized with the projection that the sugar industry reached thereafter with its ups and downs the industry has always been present in the country's productive apparatus.
The Indians, who at the Columbus factory and parcels had been serving the English, in search of gold and agricultural and domestic work and provided the first labor to the colonial sugar industry, the rigor thereof, were fragile before the increased exploitation in the mills and refineries, making imports necessary force work that could respond adequately to the demands of these industrial facilities.
The first cane were planted by Indians and in the actions of the first sugar mills and refineries of Indian labor force is predominantly attended. The generality of the characters in the English colonial bureaucracy that initial foray into the production of sugar were trustees. In the early years, the sugar industry was developed based on the work of the natives, but the rough task to which they were subjected were decimating them, replacing the final transit of the Indian labor force in extinction of the black African conditions of slavery was determined by the sugar industry. Before construction of the mill of Gonzalo de Velosa in Nigua, the country had been introduced by the English conquerors Ladino some black Africans as slaves engaged in domestic servitude or tasks. These, after being captured in Africa, had spent time in Europe and known habits and customs of the English.
Sample Velosa sugar sent to Spain, resulted in the authorities gave him facilities to the sugar, such as loan and the massive importation of African slaves constituted a decisive factor in the forming process of a syncretic culture in the country to the accelerated extinction of the Indians who had been subdued by the English conquerors living conditions so unbearable that precipitated his death.
Nigua, being one of the locations that had a higher incidence of colonial sugar industry, widely exhibited the main features of the African presence in our syncretic culture. Since the establishment of the San Gregorio mill, followed by the ingenuity Diego Caballero, the demographic weight of black African origin who occupied the position of slaves subjected to ruthless exploitation conditions began to define their superiority, with all the slaves imported cultural elements peculiar that, over time are an expression of the contribution of African culture to culture native Dominica.
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