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Zone VI- South: : Peravia (Bani), Azua, San José de Ocoa, San Juan de la Maguana,
Comendador (Elías Piña) Barahona, Bahoruco, Independencia and
Pedernales

This is the crafts zone with the largest geographical musicians who perform in the harvest festival in the month
area and the most provinces. (9) of June.

Province Peravia (Bani) has been an historically im- In the community Las Filipinas, Province Barahona we
portant center for the production of woven baskets (totes) find the only mine in the word for Larimar, a greenish blue
and hats and now stands out due to the manufacture of semi-precious stone principally used for artisan jewelry in
rag dolls in the “Mother’s Center” of the community Villa the country and recognized by the National Congress as
Fundación. the Caribbean Gem.

The Padre Arturo Center, which is accredited by In the towns Bahoruco and La Ciénaga, close to the
the National Institute of Professional Technical Training Larimar mine, several stone-cutting and jewelry workshops
(Instituto Nacional de Formación Técnico Profesional- operate, offering their products to the growing flow of tour-
INFOTEP), operates in San José de Ocoa. It trains young ists visiting this destination.
people in the making of wooden coffers and chests, glass-
ware (lamps and decorations), jewelry and bamboo basket- Dr. Temístocle Féliz, Cabral, Barahona
making. In this city there are also several workshops mak-
ing cigar boxes and coffers, operated by graduates of this
Center.

In Azua several workshops making rocking chairs
with seats lined in palm fiber operate. Here too resides a
magnificent carver of wooden images of saints (Roosevelt
Méndez) who has been awarded prizes in international na-
tivity scene competitions (The Vatican, 2008)

In Boquerón, Azua and the surrounding communities,
lathed mortars are made from baítoa, bayahonda and guay-
acán (ligum vitae) wood

Barahona is a province with diverse crafts produc-
tion and a carnival tradition, principally in the community
of Cabral, with the distinction that the decoration of their
masks, called Cachuas, are made of waxed paper and date
of their celebration is during Easter Week.

Near Cabral, in the village La Lista, there are 30 fur-
niture workshops, mostly making chairs and rocking chairs
with woven palm fiber seats.

In Polo, a community located in the Bahoruco Mountain
Range and known for its excellent organic coffee, there
are about 25 makers of atabales (drums), many of them

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