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Jimaní is the capital and the second largest city of the Independencia Province of the Dominican Republic. It serves as one of the two main thoroughfares to Haiti (with Dajabón), with a duty-free open-air marketplace operating on the border with the Haitian town of Malpasse. The town was extensively damaged in the flash flood of May 25, 2004, which killed many citizens during the night and washed away hundreds of homes.〔 ==History== The earliest inhabitants of Jimaní came from various communities of the southwest, such as Neiba, Duvergé, El Estero, Las Salinas, Azua de Compostela, Santa Cruz de Barahona, and included Haitian immigrants that married or had common-law marriages with Dominicans, forming families in the most populous neighborhood of the community, known as Jimaní Viejo. By the 1930s Jimaní belonged to Neiba and in 1938, it became part of the commune of La Descubierta and Duvergé, forming a part of the Province of Neiba, later known as Baoruco. At that time, Jimaní was not recognized by historians and it did not even figure in the map of the Dominican Republic. Due to its border location, Jimaní became part of the strategic plans of Dictator Rafael L. Trujillo Molina for "Dominicanization" of all the region of the border with Haiti,〔 which resulted in the genocide of thousands of Haitians by Trujillo's agents known as the Parsley Massacre. After a phase of moderate development, Law 299 of 1943 raised Jimaní to the category of Municipal District, belonging to the commune of La Descubierta. In 1948, Jimaní became a municipality. Trujillo Molina wanted to turn it into a more beautiful and magnificent city. At that time many concrete buildings were made for soldiers and public officials brought from the interior of the country to assume public duties, due to the lack of local qualified personnel and widespread low literacy levels in the community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jimaní」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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