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Carnaval de Sanchez in Sanchez
Sanchez, a historic Samana Bay port once linked by rail to the Cibao's banana and coffee trade, holds a standard February Sunday carnival of local comparsas without a signature character. The town separately hosts a seafood festival later in the year, giving visitors two distinct reasons to stop here.
Sanchez, a small port town on Samana Bay, once served as the Atlantic terminus of the Dominican Republic's first major railway, built in the late nineteenth century to move goods, notably bananas and coffee, from the Cibao valley to coastal shipping.