Trivia
- There is a col between the summits of Pico Duarte and La Pelona mountains, in the central mountain range of the Dominican Republic, which bears the name Valle de Lilís. There is an apocryphal story that claims that the reason for this name is because the dictator once had a mountain villa up there (2,950 meters above sea level), though no evidence of this has ever been found.
- There is an anecdote in the Dominican Republic that Lilís went to a little village in El Cibao and someone shouted "Qué Nublao!" (What a cloudy black sky!), the instant he saw the dark-skinned Lilís and not knowing who he was. Lilís responded by saying, "No se preocupe, la lluvia viene por' atrá..." (Don't worry! The rain is right behind.) They said that the rain was the killing of all villagers. No evidence of this has ever been found either.
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