Moca

Moca lies in the fertile Cibao region of northern Hispaniola, among rivers and farmland south of the northern mountain range. At the time of Spanish conquest the area belonged to the Indigenous chiefdom of Maguá. The name appears in colonial records by 1737, when farms at Moca and neighboring places were mentioned in connection with provisions for new settlers at Puerto Plata on the northern coast.

The later city of San Francisco de Macorís also lies here.