Villa Altagracia is a municipality

Municipalities of the Dominican Republic

The provinces of the Dominican Republic are divided into two or more municipalities with the exception of the Distrito Nacional which consist of only one municipality Santo Domingo...

 (municipio

Municipio

Municipio and Município are terms used for country subdivisions. They are often translated as municipality.-Overview:...

) of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a nation on the island of La Hispaniola, part of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean region. The western third of the island is occupied by the nation of Haiti, making Hispaniola one of two Caribbean islands that are shared by two countries...

. Within the municipality there are three municipal district

Municipal district

A municipal district is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly referring to a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....

s (distritos municipal): La Cuchilla, Medina and San José del Puerto.

As of the 2002 census the municipality had 78,507 inhabitants, 36,791 living in the city itself and 41,716 in its rural district

District

Districts are a type of administrative division, in some countries managed by a local government. They vary greatly in size, spanning entire regions or counties, several municipalities, or subdivisions of municipalities.-Austria:...

s (Secciones).
For comparison with other municipalities and municipal districts see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

Notable residents

• Sergio Vargas
  Sergio Vargas
  For the Chilean football goalkeeper with the same name see Sergio Vargas Sergio Vargas is a Dominican merengue singer. He has been a member of the bands La Banda Brava and Los Hijos del Rey.- References :...
  
  
• Gerpis Correa (Shino Aguakate)
• Nino Espinosa
  Nino Espinosa
  Arnulfo Acevedo Espinosa was a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher from the Dominican Republic signed as an amateur free agent with the New York Mets in September at the age of 17....
  
  
• Lic. Francisco Matos Catanos
• Ramon Read Fernandez
• Ing. Ezequiel Sosa
• Aneudy Mieses
• Federico Velázquez