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La Vega

Yaque del Norte river placers

Gold ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain).

Why this spot

Cibao rivers panned for gold since Columbus's time, the first placer gold rush of the Americas

Historically documented placers in colonial chronicles and geological reports.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

flash floods

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