The story
Festival de la Sal in Aguadulce
Festival de la Sal in Aguadulce, Cocle, celebrates the town's historic artisanal sea-salt industry along the Gulf of Parita, a trade significant enough to have earned Aguadulce its national nickname, Tierra de la Sal, and to warrant a dedicated municipal museum preserving its long coastal history.
Aguadulce takes its name, sweet water, from a colonial-era story locals tell about thirsty Spanish sailors who, after too many days drinking only seawater, found a freshwater well nearby and shouted agua dulce, agua dulce, sweet water, sweet water, giving the settlement its name well before it was formally established as a parish district in 1848, separating from the older town of Nata de los Caballeros.