La Union, Sosua

Dwight · Jul 9, 2005

This is probably a silly question for those of you living on the north coast...but I could use your help.On my last visit a "friend" told me she lived in Puerto Plata. The address she gave me is apt.xxx, etc. Frente al Aeropuerto, La Union, Sosua.

Is this a Sosua address...or Puerto Plata address? I know Puerto Plata has an airport...what about Sosua?

Thanks

Dwight

Nelly · Jul 9, 2005

Dwight,
Puerto Plata is a province as well as a City. The Puerto Plata airport is basically in La Union which is a community about 10 mins from Sosua on the road between Sosua and the city of Puerto Plata.
Hope this helps,
Nelly

Dwight said:
This is probably a silly question for those of you living on the north coast...but I could use your help.On my last visit a "friend" told me she lived in Puerto Plata. The address she gave me is apt.xxx, etc. Frente al Aeropuerto, La Union, Sosua.

Is this a Sosua address...or Puerto Plata address? I know Puerto Plata has an airport...what about Sosua?

Thanks

Dwight

Loidin · Jul 9, 2005

My dear: :bandit:
Sosua and La Union are towns that belongs to the Puerto Plata Province...
Checkout a map to find that address... and keep u well ubicated.

Ken · Jul 9, 2005

The Puerto Plata airport is actually closer to Sosua than to Puerto Plata. La Union is on the opposite side of the highway as the airport, and is very close to the entrance to the airport.

Sosua, Puerto Plata, and La Union are all in the Province of Puerto Plata.

I don't know that I would all La Union a town. It is more like a very large residential area.

MerengueDutchie · Jul 10, 2005

Dwight said:
This is probably a silly question for those of you living on the north coast...but I could use your help.On my last visit a "friend" told me she lived in Puerto Plata. The address she gave me is apt.xxx, etc. Frente al Aeropuerto, La Union, Sosua.

Is this a Sosua address...or Puerto Plata address? I know Puerto Plata has an airport...what about Sosua?

Thanks

Dwight

The adress is correct.. she lives in PoP province, La Union is a community directly in front of the Aeropeurto Juan Luperon aka PoP airport..

Btw, if you want to visit her make sure you drive a 4X4.. that stretch of road is one of the worst in on the North Coast

Rocky · Jul 10, 2005

All of the answers above are correct.
I might add that La Union is considered part of Sosua.
The borderline to the next town West of us, is just West of the airport/airforce base, and it's called Cangrejo, then a bit farther West, it becomes Montellano, then farther West again, it becomes Puerto Plata.

Dwight · Jul 10, 2005

Thanks to everyone for helping with the address question. I was confused because the address seemed to have two "towns" as part of the address...instead of the usual street/apt.#, town and country that I'm used to. I found other addresses I asked for to be somewhat unusual as well...

Dwight

Brian · Jul 10, 2005

what was her name/.

Escott · Jul 10, 2005

Brian said:
what was her name/.

If he names my wife I am going to hunt him down. Same goes for you!

Wineclubs · Jul 10, 2005

La Union

Isn't La union a Barrio?

Loidin · Jul 10, 2005

Wineclubs said:
Isn't La union a Barrio?

Originally La Union is the name of the Air Force Base, then the Gregorio Luperon International Airport was called La Union first. La Union goverment proyect buildings are 5 minutes away outside the airport as if going to Sosua direction....

Rocky · Jul 10, 2005

Wineclubs said:
Isn't La union a Barrio?

Yes. It is a barrio (suburb) of Sosua.
Originally built approx. 11 years ago, to house the people who live in the Charamicos ghetto, called El Tablon.
Unfortunately, a corrupt governor at the time sold the apartments off to friends & aquaintances.
When Balaguer came up to inaugurate the opening and found out what had happened, he left in a huff, and the rest of the story, we'll never know for sure, but El Tablon is still there, the number 1 ghetto on the North coast.

Loidin · Jul 10, 2005

Rocky said:
Yes. It is a barrio (suburb) of Sosua.
Originally built approx. 11 years ago, to house the people who live in the Charamicos ghetto, called El Tablon. Unfortunately, a corrupt governor at the time sold the apartments off to friends & aquaintances. When Balaguer came up to inaugurate the opening and found out what had happened, he left in a huff, and the rest of the story, we'll never know for sure, but El Tablon is still there, the number 1 ghetto on the North coast.

This is the correct way to teach history for people like me (how hates History)
Thanks for the resume, i was almost to ask about the suburbs in La Union.

Dwight · Jul 11, 2005

No Names. I don't want to be "hunted" down by Escott and... others..haha! :nervous:

hollywood north · Jul 11, 2005

Thanks for the info regarding those buildings that are like a ghetto. I always wondered who they were intended for and they remind me of similar in NYC....T.O.....
blocks of cement surrounded by nothing. Someone coined them filing cabinets for people.

Victor Laszlo · Jul 11, 2005

Rocky said:
Yes. It is a barrio (suburb) of Sosua.
Originally built approx. 11 years ago, to house the people who live in the Charamicos ghetto, called El Tablon.
Unfortunately, a corrupt governor at the time sold the apartments off to friends & aquaintances.
When Balaguer came up to inaugurate the opening and found out what had happened, he left in a huff, and the rest of the story, we'll never know for sure, but El Tablon is still there, the number 1 ghetto on the North coast.

Where in Charamicos is El Tablon located?

Escott · Jul 11, 2005

On a road that goes down to where the poluted river meets the poluted ocean.

The picture on my blog of Baby in a Bucket was taken at the end of the road.

It was a cool picture!

Scott

Rocky · Jul 12, 2005

hollywood north said:
Thanks for the info regarding those buildings that are like a ghetto. I always wondered who they were intended for and they remind me of similar in NYC....T.O.....
blocks of cement surrounded by nothing. Someone coined them filing cabinets for people.

I may not have explained it properly, but La Union certainly is NOT a ghetto.
It was built, as tenament housing, to get people out of the El Tablon Ghetto.

Rocky · Jul 12, 2005

Victor Laszlo said:
Where in Charamicos is El Tablon located?

The main road that circles all the way around Charamicos, called Eugenio Kundhart, accesses the entrance to El Tablon, at the very end of the circle, 100 feet away from where it merges back into a 2 way street, if that helps you locate it.

Escott · Jul 12, 2005

Rocky said:
I may not have explained it properly, but La Union certainly is NOT a ghetto.
It was built, as tenament housing, to get people out of the El Tablon Ghetto.

It certainly looks like a ghetto to me.

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