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The largest municipality in Santiago, on the north slope of the Cordillera Central, with hot spring pools by the Bao River and the longest route to Pico Duarte.
StubNo. 0025
You leave the Zona Colonial and drive 192 km, about 2 h 35 min, to San José de las Matas. If you're coming from Santiago de los Caballeros, it's about an hour on the Manuel Peña road.
People call it Sajoma. It's the largest municipality in Santiago province: about 1,500 km², more than half the province.
The town sits 523 meters up, on the north slope of the Cordillera Central, with an average temperature of about 24 °C.
The municipality has three river parks. Aguas Calientes, in Los Montones, is the most visited: hot spring pools and a wooden boardwalk along the Bao River.
Arroyo Hondo is built where an old hydroelectric plant used to be, and it has a zip line and pools.
La Ventana is in Inoa, 7 km from town, by the Amina River.
The longest route to Pico Duarte starts here.
The Mata Grande route to Pico Duarte starts here. It goes through Los Montones, Mata Grande, at the headwaters of the Bao River, the Bao Valley and La Pelona.
It's about 45 km, the longest route, and it crosses the best-preserved broadleaf forests in the Cordillera Central.