Monte Plata is a town and municipality ( municipio ) and the capital of the Monte Plata province in the Dominican Republic . It includes the municipal districts ( distritos municipal ) of Boyá , Chirino , and Don Juan .
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1-468: Monte Plata was founded by residents of the towns of Monte Cristi and Puerto Plata, whose destruction was ordered by the king of Spain and carried-out by Antonio Ozorio, Governor of the Island. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two cities MONTE Cristi and Puerto PLATA . The founders of Monte Plata were 87 families from the two previously mentioned cities. In the municipality the main rivers are
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