Yaguate is a town and municipality (municipio) of the San Cristóbal province in the south region of Dominican Republic.

On the western banks of the Nizao River at the end of the 16th century the Spanish captain Juan Tello de Guzmán established the Yaguate settlement.

The rancher settlements were places where families lived whose main occupation consisted of raising horses and cutting wood.

While the mill required a large amount of labor for its proper functioning, in the ranch the massive use of the slave was not necessary, which is why homogeneous human settlements arose in their surroundings where the Spanish were a majority.

Missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints helped to rescue many people from the flood, although one person died, trapped behind a locked door.