History of Sosúa
It was in Batey where in a first moment United Fruit Company installed administrative offices, bunkhouses, housings and a pier at the beginning of the XX century, although the place had been inhabited from time behind. In the proximities there was a position of dependent guard of the Spanish garnish of Santiago of the Gentlemen.
The foundation of Sosúa is recognized officially, nevertheless, with the arrival of 500 Jewish colonists that you/they were welcomed by the dictator's government Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in 1938. The Jews introduced the milky and meat industry that today is still an economic important motor in the city. it survives, also, a synagogue with an interesting museum on the Jewish community that nowadays nevertheless has been dispersed toward the capital of the country, Santo Domingo, and the rest of the north coast.
Sosúa from the decade of the eighty has been a Tourist destination of those but important of the country, only 30 years Ago, Sosúa was a calm town of fishermen in which hardly worked a hotel. Today Sosúa has transformed into one of you pierce them tourist more important of the north coast of Dominican Republic.
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