If you paid attention to the original post (http://dominican-republic-news.com/board/index.cgi?read=34056), you'd see that I included the source, and that the number 250,000 is a generous reduction (on my part) of the actual number that refers to the population from Puerto Plata to Cabarete, (from Richard's original claim), and that 25,000 is for Sosua alone.
Source:
http://www.estadistica.gov.do/html/puerto%20plata.htm
Puerto Plata 261,485
San Felipe de Puerto Plata 129,739
Altamira 25,473
Guananico 7,361
Imbert 23,236
Los Hidalgos 13,549
Luperon 14,942
Sosua 28,303
La Isabela 18,882