How Many People Fit in a Guagua?

Last Saturday we headed downtown Santiago to shop for some candles to give as gifts. When we arrived at the candle shop, it was closed up with a sign on the door. The sign was partially ripped so it was hard to decifer. It mentioned a date in July and listed three phone numbers. At first we thought that the shop was going to open up in another town during the month of July. However, Brian called one of the phone numbers and realized that the shop was already open. Here in the Dominican Republic, streets are often named after important dates in history. For example, almost every city has a street named 27 de febrero (February 27th), which is the independence day here. The date in July wasn't the date the shop was going to be opening. It was the address of the candle shop in the town of Moca. The man on the phone told Brian that we could take a "guagua" to Moca. A guagua is a large van that travels from one town to another picking up passengers along the way. For just 35 pesos each, we could ride the guagua to Moca in about 30 minutes. This van would comfortably hold about 15 people. At one point there were 27 people in our guagua. Every time someone wanted to get out of the vehicle, a bunch of people would have to pile out so that the person could exit the guagua. It was quite a trip!