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Fiestas Patronales San Francisco de Asis in San Francisco de Macoris
San Francisco de Macoris honors its namesake patron, Saint Francis of Assisi, on October 4, following the standard Dominican pattern of novena masses, procession and evening verbena. The city's cultural calendar also includes a separately documented late-November cacao and chocolate festival, giving visitors two distinct autumn entry points roughly seven weeks apart.
San Francisco de Macoris, the Duarte province capital and one of the Dominican Republic's most productive cacao-growing centers, takes its name directly from Saint Francis of Assisi, whose fixed Catholic feast day falls on October 4.