Dominicans (Spanish: Dominicanos) are people of the Dominican Republic. This identification may be historical, cultural, legal, or residential. For most Dominicans, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of being Dominican. Dominican was historically the name for the inhabitants of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, the site of the first Spanish settlement in the Western Hemisphere. The origins of the Dominican Republic and its culture consists predominately in a European basis, with both African and native Taíno influences.