JEM237 previously said:



Doesn't mean they aren't!!

xwill7 previously said:


I have friends from Puerto Plata that never say that they are from el cibao...
If you have driven all over DR like I have you can tell when you have stepped back into el Cibao. I do not even have to know what town I am in, I could feel it. Only a true cibaeno will feel this

JEM237 previously said:



Really? You've been to those towns and you still think the same way? Okay, I guess you have the right to see things from your own perspective but to say that people from these towns only have mere 'affinities' and not the dialect, customs, mannerisms, physical appearance (i.e. strong European and Taino features) makes me doubt that you've really been to said places. By your standards, Fefita La Grande, Tatico Henriquez, El Cieguito de Nagua, El Prodigio, Geovanny Polanco who are all Cibaeños, turn out to be not "Cibaeño Enough" for you and those that think like you. I'll stick to facts and not opinions.

guillermone previously said:



I also would have to side with Ciby75-Los verdaderos Cibaeños son de "Tierra Adentro" de la loma y de lo campo, the heart of the the DR. What this means is that those areas in, near or surrounding the Cibao Valley have traditionally been self-contained, isolated locations which had little to no contact with other parts of the country, let alone the outside world and over time developed their own unique and special regional blend to identify them as such.

We must remember that in the early days of the Republic it use to take up to 3 or more day to reach the capital city from Santiago and depending on the location another another few days, just to get to the center of town before heading off to Santo Domingo. So the whole ordeal could have easily taken up to a week if everything went as plan, meaning it was big deal to move around from one place to the next. If you lived in central Cibao you stayed home, worked the land and did not intermingle with anyone other then your own kind.

This is the reason why I have a problem or feel ambivalent about those coastal areas that many posters insist on considering it part of the "authentic Cibao." For example places like or similar to Puerto Plata have traditionally been a haven, a port of entry, for foreign immigrants from all over the world. Because of that there has been too many outside influences which automatically dilutes any trace of Cibaeño culture it may have had and negates the right to call themselves bonafide "Cibaeños."

For example Dominican General Gregorio Luperon although born in Pto. Plata was the son of a black British West Indies mother and although paternity is not clear, it is suspected that his father was also a foreign national. Many Cuban exiles arrived in the Dominican North coast in an attempt to excape the casualties of the war of independence. Cuban patriot Jose Marti landed in Monte Cristi and wrote the the "Manifesto of Montecristi which help lauch the Cuban revolution. More recently Frank Rainieri, one of the pioneer of Punta Cana was also born in Puerto Plata but is actually of Italian ancestry. These are but a few examples of why coastal Dominican cities can not really be trully considered Cibaeño even if they display many Cibaeño characteristics.

Pepe32 previously said:

I think there are several discussion going on here and arguments based on each persons perceptions...


1.What is "El Cibao" the geographical region
2.What is " El Cibao adentro" in other words the core of el Cibao
3.What areas have Cibaeño culture (accent,music etc.)


Now all of us know that the central Cibao is in that triangle between Santiago ,La Vega Real and Espaillat ,from this triangle the cultural aspects extend to all of San Francisco and into la linea generally losing influence the further away you move from this ¨core¨area.

The Geographical region "El Cibao" is an artifical construct that has very little to do with the reality of culture and even personal indetification as "Cibaeños"

In my OPINION neither Dajabon nor Samana are "Cibaeños" though in some areas they might have some cultural influences from the region as they have cultural influences of other regions.


One aspect of being Cibaeños which some may not like to hear is that our names are almost exclusively Spanish or Portuguese ,with very few "nombres raros".. Perez,Martinez,Gonzalez ,Abreu,Ferreira,Diaz,Pimentel,Sanchez,Cruz etc Once you start seeing "nombres raros" it is because you have gone towards the coast and the influence of outside "foreign" cultures.


Anyhow ,I think that most of us are proud to be Cibaeños and our unique culture amd though we may disagree on the fine print we all agree on the bold text which is for the #1 region of the nation and the point of origin for the heart of DR!

guillermone previously said:



I also would have to side with Ciby75-Los verdaderos Cibaeños son de "Tierra Adentro" de la loma y de lo campo, the heart of the the DR. What this means is that those areas in, near or surrounding the Cibao Valley have traditionally been self-contained, isolated locations which had little to no contact with other parts of the country, let alone the outside world and over time developed their own unique and special regional blend to identify them as such.

We must remember that in the early days of the Republic it use to take up to 3 or more day to reach the capital city from Santiago and depending on the location another another few days, just to get to the center of town before heading off to Santo Domingo. So the whole ordeal could have easily taken up to a week if everything went as plan, meaning it was big deal to move around from one place to the next. If you lived in central Cibao you stayed home, worked the land and did not intermingle with anyone other then your own kind.

This is the reason why I have a problem or feel ambivalent about those coastal areas that many posters insist on considering it part of the "authentic Cibao." For example places like or similar to Puerto Plata have traditionally been a haven, a port of entry, for foreign immigrants from all over the world. Because of that there has been too many outside influences which automatically dilutes any trace of Cibaeño culture it may have had and negates the right to call themselves bonafide "Cibaeños."

For example Dominican General Gregorio Luperon although born in Pto. Plata was the son of a black British West Indies mother and although paternity is not clear, it is suspected that his father was also a foreign national. Many Cuban exiles arrived in the the Dominican North coast in an attempt to excape the casualties of the war of independence. Cuban patriot Jose Marti landed in Monte Cristi and wrote the the "Manifesto of Montecristi which help lauch the Cuban revolution. More recently Frank Rainieri, one of the pioneer of Punta Cana was also born in Puerto Plata but is actually of Italian ancestry. These are but a few examples of why coastal Dominican cities can not really be trully considered Cibaeño even if they display many Cibaeño characteristics.

Lautaro previously said:

The Espaillat province (whose capital is Moca) is on a coastline, and nobody on his/her right mind would dare question their cibaenoness.