Govern and past economy of Jamao to the North

The Municipality Jamao to the North is located in the western part of the Espaillat Province, of which it is part.

It belongs to the circuit called Cibao Norte, where the rains that arrive with trade winds pushed from the Northeast are usually above the national average.

That Creole paradise is located on the southern slope of the Northern Cordillera, the same as the chronicler of colonial times Bartolomé de las Casas described as follows:

"And this mountain range begins from the province of Higüey and the region of the town of Macao, and ends at Monte Christi ... It is all this very fertile mountain range, as fertile in the summits as in the middle and in the beginning, for crops and cattle, as if it were flat countryside, and is full of large groves, and they were full of towns and people overflowing ... "1

Before the town existed, the name Jamao was used to identify the main river of the place, classified as an important source of lotic water, with its birth at a point in the province of Mirabal Sisters today, in one of the elevations that the town has there Northern Cordillera.

By studying now (2019) the hydrography of that region, as a simple amateur, it is observed that the Jamao River has a river dynamic characterized by not causing damage to its surroundings.

This stream of water has a displacement with little winding, as a geographer of the past noted, without further details, that goes from the Southwest to the Northwest, where it meets the Yastic River, in the coastal part of the northern fringe of the country. two

Until the last decade of the century before the territory that today forms the municipality of Jamao to the North was covered by large mahogany and other trees of precious or noble wood, as they are also told, which were exported especially for Europe.

History records that at that time there were still signs of extensive cattle raising that was a custom of colonial times, characterized more by being a hunting activity than a breeding, due to the then low population and the vastness of land without fences .

In his work Economy, Slavery and Population Rubén Silié addresses with abundance of details, within the framework of the colonial era, about productive realities similar to that of Jamao to the North throughout the national territory.3

Over the years, the economy of Jamao to the North was diversified, thanks to the promotion of cattle and livestock with open-pit raising, protected by barbed wire fences, and also with the large-scale production of tobacco, coffee, cocoa and other products of national and international marketing.

Although to a lesser extent, but it should be noted that there are now dozens of pig farms and birds in that municipality, especially chickens, laying hens and turkeys. It is a modern form of intensive livestock, with battery cages.