To have an idea how the creation of Boca de Yuma originated. The first families that poured into this village were coming from various regions of the country. According to my search and history the first person to inhabit was name Pedro Sifuentes was nicknamed the Portugalete, he was also called the Robinson Crusoe for the many years that he lived there alone, due to its sinking of his ship at Yuma bay. In 1880 came the first fishermen among them John Bernard, Charles Wilson, of the natural island of St. Thomas, these were the first to build homes and procreates families, they opted to devote themselves to the transport of wood, that is how the village Boca de Yuma began to get shape.
Boca de Yuma had a fort overlooking the bay areas. The cannons were the main defense. The fort held a highly defensible position. The remains of a barrel of coastline that is believe to be the same as the King of Spain asked the Archbishop Fernando Navarrete for the defense and protection of the Shrine of Our Lady of La Altagracia in Higüey. Recalls back in 1877 a revolutionary an expedition of Boca de Yuma organized by the baecista of Curaçao left cannons underwater, those cannons were found and placed as an ornament at the end of ocean cliff where the community park and the historic lighthouse is located today. Other guns and battleships remaining exist in the Playa Blanca (White Beach). Deep inside the mouth river there is a caves, where according to tradition sank the ship's pirate Cofresi after having made their trips through the waters of the West. One of the great pirates of those times, who defended the poor, was a man named Roberto Cofresi Ramirez de Arellano, born in the coastal town of Red Cape. In 1824, Cofresi engaged a fierce battle with a U.S. commander after a fierce battle Cofresí and his crew were capture. His death sentence took place on the morning of March 29, 1825 on the fields of El Morro Castle in Old San
