Archaeological and Historical National Park of Pueblo Viejo, La
Vega (#) The municipality of La Vega limits to the North and the
west with Santiago's county, to the South, with the county
Duarte, and to the East and Southeast, with the county Sánchez.
La Concepción de la Vega began with the foundation of the
fortress of the same name, built for Christopher Columbus in
1495 at the feet of the Sacred Hill. At the arrival of the
Spaniards the area was the seat of the Guaricano, center of the
cacicazgo of Magua, governed by the cacique Guarionex. Around
the fortress and the mining exploitation in the area the city
was developed. The first construction of the fortress was in
wood and the ruins that remain correspond to the third and last
version of the same; it is very probable that initially it was
next at the Guaricano to bank of the river Verde. The area is
occupied by some 21 families of the place that claim to the
State its right of property. These areas were in the beginning
occupied by some families, reloca