Pueblo Viejo National Park

Coordinates: 19°17′36.960″N 70°32′39.120″W / 19.29360000°N 70.54420000°W / 19.29360000; -70.54420000
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Ruins of La Concepción fortress at Pueblo Viejo National Park.

The Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo,

World Heritage Tentative List on November 21, 2001 in the Cultural category.[1]

History

The city of La

Concepción de la Vega was founded as a fortress by Christopher Columbus in 1495. The city was built up around the fortress and the gold mine of Pueblo Viejo, as the extraction of precious metals was the main objective of Columbus' missions to the new world.[2] The town was destroyed by an earthquake on December 2, 1562, and the survivors moved to the present site on the banks of the Camú River
.

Mining

The Pueblo Viejo mine is the Dominican Republic's only gold mine, and was at one point the Western Hemisphere's largest and most productive gold mine.[3] The first extraction of gold from this site was undertaken in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, however.

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Notes

  1. ^ "Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo, La Vega". UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
  2. ^ Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo, La Vega (#) – UNESCO World Heritage Centre
  3. ^ Warwick-Ching (1993) p 174

References

Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo, La Vega (#) – UNESCO World Heritage Centre Accessed 2009-02-26.

Warwick-Ching, T. (1993), The International Gold Trade, Woodhead,

ISBN 1-85573-072-3
.

19°17′36.960″N 70°32′39.120″W / 19.29360000°N 70.54420000°W / 19.29360000; -70.54420000

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