The Haina River is a river of the
Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...
. It is located on the oriental limit of hydrographic district of
Azua,
Baní, and
San Cristóbal.
In 1496, according to Floyd, "Miguel Diaz and
Francisco de Garay
Francisco de Garay (1475 in Sopuerta, Biscay – 1523) was a Spanish Basque conquistador. He was a companion to Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World and arrived in Hispaniola in 1493. Here he attracted attention when he en ...
, working their way down the Haina river, discovered rich deposits of gold in the river sands perhaps twenty-five miles from the coast."
Bartolome Colon built a fort along this river, "well situated within the gold region", which he named San Cristobal.
Overview
Haina River has a length of 86 km. It starts in Loma El Zumbador of Lomas de Maimón in the Central Mountainrange, Northwest of Villa Altagracia. The river empties in the Caribbean Sea, east of the municipality Bajos de Haina, 14 km west of the Ozama River.
Etymology
Granberry and Vescelius suggest a
Macoris etymology for the name ''haina'', comparing it with ''ha-ina'' 'many nets' in the purportedly related
Warao language
Warao (also known as Guarauno, Guarao, Warrau) is the native language of the Warao people. A language isolate, it is spoken by about 33,000 people primarily in northern Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname. It is notable for its unusual object–subje ...
of the
Orinoco Delta
The Orinoco Delta is a vast river delta of the Orinoco River, located in eastern Venezuela.
Location
The Orinoco Delta is one of the eight natural regions of Venezuela.
It covers the whole of Delta Amacuro State and a few square kilometers of ...
.
See also
*
List of rivers of the Dominican Republic
This is a list of rivers in the Dominican Republic, arranged in clockwise order around the island starting in the northwest corner, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
* Dajabón River (Massacre River)
* Yaque de ...
References
* The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000.
GEOnet Names ServerCIA map
Rivers of the Dominican Republic
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