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merengue

music genre originating in the Dominican Republic
Intangible music_genre Q282131
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merengue

Summary

merengue is a music genre[1]. merengue draws 409 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #222 of 1,946).[2]

Key Facts

  • merengue's instance of is recorded as music genre[3].
  • merengue's instance of is recorded as type of dance[4].
  • merengue is a type of popular music[5].
  • merengue is a type of tropical music[6].
  • merengue is a type of music of the Dominican Republic[7].
  • merengue is a type of dance[8].
  • merengue's Commons category is recorded as Merengue[9].
  • merengue's country of origin is recorded as Dominican Republic[10].
  • 1850 marks the founding of merengue[11].
  • merengue's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Merengue music[12].
  • merengue's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/en/RL/01162[13].
  • merengue's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/fr/RL/01162[14].
  • merengue's described at URL is recorded as https://ich.unesco.org/es/RL/01162[15].
  • merengue's indigenous to is recorded as Dominican Republic[16].
  • merengue's practiced by is recorded as merengue musician[17].
  • merengue's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity[18].
  • merengue's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject African diaspora[19].
  • merengue's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[20].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include music genre[3] and type of dance[4]. Recorded subclass of include popular music[5], tropical music[6], music of the Dominican Republic[7], and dance[8].

Origins

1850 marks the founding of merengue[11].

Why It Matters

merengue draws 409 Wikipedia views per month (music_genre category, ranking #222 of 1,946).[2] merengue has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] merengue is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

Related Entities

Dominican Republic Juan Luis Guerra Trevi nel Lazio

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ba', 'bg', 'br', 'ca', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fi', '
    National library of spain spmabn id (bne v1.0) → XX5724125
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P950]]: XX5724125"
  2. 13w ago · Oscgramcam · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → —
    Great norwegian encyclopedia id → merengue
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P4342]]: merengue"
  3. 19w ago · Ksn.kenny · 2026-05-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1417]]: art/merengue"
  4. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Intangible cultural heritage status → Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
    Country of origin → Dominican Republic
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    Subclass of → popular music, tropical music, music of the Dominican Republic +1
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|5 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 30123, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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