Tropico is a telenovela produced and filmed entirely in the Dominican Republic[3] by Venevisión International, Iguana Productions and Antena Latina.

Most of the cast and crew are Dominicans, except Jose Luis Rodriguez and Scarlet Ortiz who are Venezuelans, Javier Delgiudice, Vanessa Jerí, Giovanna Valcárcel, William Bell-Taylor, and Amparo Brambilla who are from Peru; and Victor González and Juan Carlos Gonzales who are Mexican actors.

Set in the beautiful beaches of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, this melodrama revolves around the young, provincial Angelica Santos (Scarlet Ortiz) who works in the local tobacco hacienda "La Guzmana".

She works in a tobacco place and makes them and reads stories to her friends (co-workers) to encourage them.

She goes to the capital and meets a journalist who wants her to participate in the Queen of Caribbean contest, she accepts.

Days later, she meets the love of her life Antonio Guzman a rich man whose father organized the contest and when they met he was helping carrying journals.