Prehistoric Capital of The Antilles, El Pomier, San Cristobal
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The arqueological and Rock Art importance of the Pomier Caves, located at , have been significantly marked in our country thru many researches and reports realized since 1976, by Dominican and foreigners investigators.
The cultural interest in Pomier Caves has gone beyond national borders to carve a place in international ambience as one of the most important Rock Art sites of the world, reason why they demand more attention for its conservation and further more for their management as well as their prehistoric and natural legacy.
For little less than 150 years some of these caves have been exposed to the vandalism created by the uncontrolled visits, along with the physical destruction caused by the mining activities that take place in the area for the extraction of limestone.
Once stopped the destructive visiting and mining process, raised their protection category, and included in the National System of Protected Areas, the Pomier Caves received definitely their conservation guaranty thru the General Law on Environmental and Natural Resources, Law 64-00, which also gave form to the Secretariat de Estate that watches over its application.
Given the international importance of these Caves, mainly by the interest represented by them for the study of Amerindian arachnid groups that inhabited the Caribbean Islands, and in the memory of the arawac cultures that after nearly 8,000 years of presence on the islands disappeared substituted by the arrival of western culture, has been conceived to be raised to the unique category of CAPITAL PREHISTORICA DE LAS ANTILLAS (Prehistoric Capital of the Antilles), at the same time it is being considered the touristic habilitation of one of it’s caves and the physical transformation of the occupied surrounding area so that it’s architectural concept matches this new category.
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