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Buenaventura Báez Lavastida was an obstetrician and medical examiner from the Dominican Republic.

Báez Lavastida was born in Curaçao in 1862, during the exile of the Báez family after the 1857–58 Cibao Revolution, one of the many coups that their relative President Gen. Buenaventura Báez faced. He was the son of Gen. Damián Báez Méndez (son of Pablo Altagracia Báez and Teresa de Jesús Méndez) and socialité María Dolores Rafaela Lavastida Fernández de Palomares (daughter of Francisca Fernández de Palomares and Miguel Lavastida Aguirre).