Vicente Noble
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Vicente Noble is a municipality in the Dominican Republic.
It is bordered on the north by the Padre Las Casas Municipality, the Azua de Compostela province and Vallejuelo, in the San Juan de la Maguana province; to the east by the Azua de Compostela municipality; to the south by the Jaquimeyes section in the Barahona province; and to the west by the Tamayo municipality, the Neiba province, and the Yaque del Sur River that acts as a limit for both these municipalities.
Vicente Noble was founded by two families from Azua de Compostela. The town was given various names until it was called Vicente Noble by President Rafael Leónidas Trujillo in commemoration of the actions of General Vicente Noble in battles against the Haitians.
The Vicente Noble municipality is primarily agricultural. The crops of highest productivity are plantain, banana, coconut, tomatoes, pepper, eggplant, yucca, rice, beans, maize, "guandules" and sweet potato.
Thousands of emigrants from Vicente Noble now live in Spain and do domestic work. Their remittance of money constitutes an important source of income for the community.
