December and April. People from Baní Willy Aybar – Baseball player Erick Aybar – Baseball player Manny Aybar – Baseball player José Bautista (pitcher) (born 1964) - Dominican Major League Baseball pitcher Rafael Cabral, Listin Diario, the main newspaper of the Dominican Republic, Director Luis Castillo – Baseball player Mario Encarnación – Baseball player Wander Franco – Baseball player Máximo Gómez y Báez –Highest ever ranking officer "Generalissimo" Military leader in Cuba's War of Independence. First ever nominated for the Cuban presidency in 1901. Cristian Guzman - Baseball player Gilberto Hernández Ortega – painter Rafael Landestoy, Baseball player Juan Melo - Baseball player Timo Pérez – Baseball player José Ramírez - Baseball player Santaye – singer-songwriter Mario Melvin Soto, Baseball player Miguel Tejada – Baseball player Robinson Tejeda – Baseball player Juan Uribe – Baseball player Carlos Valdéz – Baseball player Luis Vizcaíno – Baseball player Pedro Baez - Baseball player Miscellaneous Baní is known for its Mangos "mamellitos" Baní is one of the places where the Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao takes place. The Internationally acclaimed Bachata singers Aventura began their career singing at small clubs gigs in Baní. References Populated places in Peravia Province Municipalities of the Dominican Republic 1764 establishments in the Spanish Empire Populated places established in 1764