Las Salinas is a town in the Barahona province of the Dominican Republic . Originally, Las Salinas was a salt mining town, which is how it got its name, from Spanish salina 'salt mine'.
6-481: At night, the loud and exciting nightlife can be heard from almost anywhere in the town. Music and dancing are key components to Dominican culture and Las Salinas is no exception. Specifically, Dembow , Bachata , Merengue , and Reggaeton are very popular. Many people enjoy riding motorcycles and doing tricks on the street. The most popular sports are volleyball, basketball, and baseball. Las Salinas has many unique dishes. Many dinners tend to have plantains either in
12-420: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Dembow The dembow beat or dembow riddim is a musical rhythm best known for its use as the core percussion element in reggaeton music, having taken its name from the 1990 dancehall song " Dem Bow " by Shabba Ranks . The rhythm, first developed by Jamaican and Panamanian producers in the early 1990s as reggaeton was beginning to form, employs
18-535: The tresillo pattern that is common in Latin American music . The dembow rhythm is usually employed as a loop , in line with reggaeton's mainly electronic production. Described as having a "bounce", it has a 3+3+2 (tresillo) cross-rhythm with a slight syncopation on every other half-beat. While dembow is the main building block of the reggaeton genre, similar modern rhythms can be found in Africa with
24-427: The form of tostones or mangú . Other popular dishes usually have one of the following: avena (chocolate oatmeal), spaghetti, fried eggs, and Dominican salami. Las Salinas is notable for having a number of children in the village with a rare 5-alpha-reductase deficiency . Although having a Y-chromosome and male internal organs, at birth they tend to appear externally female and are raised as girls. Around puberty,
30-487: The genres of afrobeats , on account of their common ancestry. There are also connections with Arabic music , credited to "cross-pollination" between Spain , the Arab world , and sub-Saharan Africa . At the beginning of the 1990s, there existed several closely related Jamaican-origin dancehall riddims revolving around a "boom-ch-boom-chick" sound such as the "Bam Bam riddim" or the "Fever Pitch riddim". Added to this group
36-422: The onset of male hormones causes virilization and their actual sex becomes apparent. At this point, they switch genders and are raised as boys. This is a common enough occurrence that it does not cause much concern among the townspeople, who are accustomed to it. These boys are called "guevedoces" from a combined slang form meaning "eggs (testes) at twelve". This Dominican Republic location article
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