Las Matas de Farfán is a town in the San Juan Province,

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. It is the birthplace of a number of current and former

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players including Jean Segura, Juan Encarnación,

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, Odalis Perez, Ramón Santiago, and

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. During the 1822–44 Haitian occupation, the town was officially designated as Las-Mathas.

Climate

Las Matas de Farfán has a

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( Am) with very hot daytime temperatures year round with milder nighttime temperatures.

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is very large for somewhere in the

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References

Municipalities of the Dominican Republic Populated places in San Juan Province (Dominican Republic) {{DominicanRepublic-geo-stub