Serial properties integrated by four archaeological sites, vestiges of the first colonial sugar mills in America, built by Europeans on the island of Hispaniola at the beginning of the 16th century with the objective to produce sugar and its derivatives. These cultural sites allow us to understand the historical, social, economic, cultural and environmental processes of the sugar manufacture process that took place in the Caribbean for many centuries. In these sites it is possible to appreciate the two sugar mills´s typologies, the trapiche and the hydraulic. The complexes were located in the proximity of rivers and forests to facilitate the supply of water and wood used as energy sources; it also permitted the fluvial transport of the products from the factories to the adjacent ports.
Ingenio de Boca de Nigua (N18 22 21.30 E70 03 8.625): Horses-moved trapiche built in the sixteenth century and rebuilt in the eighteenth century. The mill consist in a group of buildings constructed with brick and stone masonry, among these structures there is boiler house and a two-story building. The ground floor has a vaulting web ceiling and was used for the installation of ovens; while the second floor served for the installation of cauldrons or pails in a continuous arrangement. The mill, with a polygonal plan, is reinforced on each side by masonry buttresses covered with bricks, the mill´s trapiche used to squeezed the canes was installed in it center. In its vicinity, a stone ramp facilitated the transportation of the raw materials and the finished products. The warehouses, drying rooms and warehouses were organized around a central patio. The oven is located close to that set.
Boca de Nigua is the site where the second largest slave rebellion of the Spanish colony of Santo Domingo happened in 1796.
Ingenio de Diego Caballero (N18 21 58.85 E70 03 38.40): Hydraulic mill built in the sixteenth century. This sugar complex is composed by a set of buildings constructed with brick and stone masonry, among these, there is a boiler house with five furnaces for the same number of pans arranged in a continuous way. Other parts are the purge house, the mill (connected to the ditch that led the water from the Nigua River), and a warehouse for to deposit the ovens and the mill´s production.
In 1535 this sugar mill was the place of the first and greater organized goats’ breeding, furthermore that was the land of the first cultivation of vineyards cultivation of the Island started.
Engine of Engombe (N18 26 54.65 E70 00 02.75) : Horses-moved trapiche of the 16th In its beginning the production started with a hydraulic system. The site name has an African origin and comes from the Bantu word "ngombé" which means "cattle"or "cow". The set is composed for various buildings made out of stone: a two stories owner´s house; a chapel with a single ship, a two gable roof, an apse covered by dome of half orange in bricks and the bell tower. Other components of the complex are a polygonal mill, a boiler house and the warehouse.
Ingenio de Palavé (N18 28 49.62 E70 02 5.10): Two-story brick masonry house built in the 17th century on a land that belonged to San José cacao farm. The façade is composed by a central portico with three arches and four columns (two exempt columns and two attached) crowned by bulrush and pinnacles. From the ground floor a stair afford independent access to the bedroom side located upstairs.
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