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Dominican Republic
Santiago Rodríguez Province

Monción

Monción is one of the 3 municipalities of the province in Previously it was called Guaraguanó, a name from the Taíno, but in 1898, the President of the Republic at that time, Ulises Heureaux, assigned the name of Monción, in honor of the hero of the Dominican Restoration War, General Benito Monción.
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  • Type: Town with 15,700 residents
  • Description: place in Santiago Rodríguez, Dominican Republic
  • Also known as: “Moncion”

Monción

Latitude
19.4109° or 19° 24′ 39″ north
Longitude
-71.1504° or 71° 9′ 1″ west
Population
15,700
Elevation
355 metres (1,165 feet)
Open location code
77FCCR6X+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 615636348
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3496285
Wiki­data ID
Q3307947
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Uzbek—“Monción” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Monción”
  • Cebuano: “Monción”
  • Chinese: “Monción”
  • Chinese: “蒙西翁”
  • Dutch: “Monción”
  • Italian: “Monción”
  • Japanese: “モンシオン”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Monción”
  • Portuguese: “Monción”
  • Russian: “Монсьон”
  • Spanish: “Moncion”
  • Spanish: “Monción”
  • Swedish: “Monción”
  • Uzbek: “Monción”

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