Pepillo Salcedo is a municipality in the Monte Cristi Province of the Dominican Republic, located next to the border with Haiti.

the city received its name from José Antonio Salcedo Ramírez who was a combatant in the long war days of the consolidation of national independence day in the Dominican Republic.

General Salcedo Ramírez was also an outstanding military leader in the intense restorative war from 1863 to 1865.

Its official name is Pepillo Salcedo, in accordance with Law 2089, of August 25, 1949, whose literature highlights the historical figure of that character who knew how to defend the concept of Dominicanness by first confronting the Haitians and then the Spanish.

The Municipality of Pepillo Salcedo on the Dominican side and Meillac, on the Haitian side, are the starting points of the border of some four hundred kilometers that divides the two countries.