DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Salcedo and environs in Hermanas Mirabal province is considered a cultural destination with thousands stopping every year at the Mirabal Sisters Museum. But now the province is claiming a new attraction, the Museo Magua in Ojo de Agua. Inaugurated in November 2021, the community museum is the creation of Juan Peña and is located on a Taino Indian archaeological site that is yet to be excavated.

The museum explains the influence the Maya Indians had on the aboriginal culture in Quisqueya. The collection on exhibit is around 3,000 pieces including ceremonial mortars, zemies, stones carved into knives, arrowheads, pieces of necklaces and pottery.

Peña explains that the variety of stones used to elaborate many of these utensils, including pieces of Saladoid (Igneris) origin, confirms the migratory flow that took place in the chiefdom that extended from La Vega to...