Its capital Santa Bárbara de Samaná, with about 6,000 inhabitants, has an unusual appearance of wide avenues and functional buildings that have little to do with the rural and paradisiacal environment of the rest of the area.
Samaná lives basically of marble extraction, fishing, coconuts, rice and cacao that grow in plantations.
Many African customs and traditions are still alive. Freed slaves from the Southern area settled here, mixing their language with that of the local fishermen, now known as local Samané.
