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Samana is a peninsula full of beatifull beaches and natural scenery. Santa Barbara (downtown Samana) is a Bahia with a “malecon” and a beautifull view to the sea where the “cayos” can be seing linked by a bridge.

At the beginning of the 19th century, with the arrival of liberated blacks from Philadelphia and then with the immigration of Antillean neighbors, this area, located in the geographical center of the Samaná Peninsula, became a mosaic of cultures, giving the region a variety and a personality of its own. Surnames such as King, Jones, Green, Kelly … among others, are very frequent among the families that live in the area.

Although in the surroundings of El Limón there are beautiful, lonely and wild beaches (Morón, with its canyon sunk in the sand, Limón, Las Canas, El Ermitaño …), this small town, where a family industry begins to flourish Based on eco-tourism, it is known for its famous waterfall that attracts thousands of visitors from all over the country.

Located in one of the three main hills that make up the Sierra de Samaná, in the northern part of the peninsula, the Salto de El Limón, with its 40 meters high and mossy walls, is of great natural beauty and one of the key excursions of the Samaná Peninsula. During the ride of about 40 minutes on horseback, you will have the opportunity to observe small family orchards, cocoa crops, coffee, pineapple bushes, coconut trees, abundant tropical fruit trees such as soursop, mango, bija, sour and sweet oranges, grapefruits or good bread, fruit that is part of several traditional dishes in the area. The landscape will show you small houses of cheerful colors built with the Royal Palm (Roystonea hispaniolana), highly protected by the authorities. This palm also serves as a home and nesting place for the cigua palm (Dulcus dominicus), an endemic bird on the island.

Although the primitive-original vegetation has already disappeared, there are still some remnants of sub-tropical humid forest on the banks of streams and on the pedestrian pathways to the waterfall, in addition to coconut trees and cultivated tropical plants. Among the native and some endemic trees we have, for example, Juan Primero (Simarouba glauca), Cigua Blanca (Ocotea coriacea), Uva de Sierra (Coccoloba diversifolia), Cabirma (Guarea guidonia) or the Higüero (Crescentia cujete), whose dried fruit was used by the indigenous people as containers for water, nowadays very popular handicrafts are made with it.

The area is reached by the Santa Bárbara de Samaná – El Limón – Las Terrenas highway.

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