Santiago de los Caballeros

My family is Dominican, from the city of Santiago de los Caballeros, and I am likely one of the only kids of Dominican descent who attended my high school.

According to a report from the hospital that treated him, Ventura collapsed while having lunch in the northern city of Santiago de los Caballeros.

“Voters from throughout the 13th Congressional District elected a country boy from Santiago de los Caballeros in the Dominican Republic to be the nominee of the Democratic Party,” Mr. Espaillat said to a raucous crowd.

Born in the country's second city of Santiago de los Caballeros, Jorge Blanco was the son of a prosperous businessman and a schoolteacher.

In 1564 the cities of Santiago de los Caballeros and Concepcion de la Vega were completely destroyed by an earthquake and the few remaining inhabitants reestablished the towns at short distances from the original sites.