What dance-oriented music genre is similar to Merengue?
Cumbia
Title: Banda Calypso Volume 6
Passage: Volume 6 is the sixth album by Banda Calypso, released in 2004.  The album features a very sentimental content with much of romantic ballads, was not very danceable rhythms like Cumbia or Merengue, but did not miss the dance musicality that was ever brought.  The disc is one of the classics of the band until today that is "A Lua Me Traiu", and some highlights like the songs "Ainda Te Amo", "Pra Todo Mundo ver", and the song "Minha Princesa" which was dedicated to Yasmin who was born shortly before the signal for disc burning music brings her crying before the last chorus.
Title: Free Free
Passage: "Free Free" (stylized as "FREE FREE") is a song by Japanese recording artist Ami Suzuki and producer Yasutaka Nakata, taken from her sixth studio album "Dolce" (2008).  It was released on August 22, 2007 through Avex Trax and was distributed into three physical formats and for digital consumption.  Additionally, the track appeared as a double A-side to "Super Music Maker", another recording by Suzuki and Nakata.  Suzuki first started working with the producer in late 2006 after her staff at Avex noticed the singers engagement with dance-oriented music whilst performing at night clubs, and wanted to pair her with a musician that dealt with electronic dance music.
Title: Cumbia
Passage: Cumbia ] is a dance-oriented music genre popular throughout Latin America.  It began as a courtship dance practiced among the African population on the Caribbean coasts of Colombia and Panama.  It later mixed with Amerindian and European instruments, steps and musical characteristics and spread throughout Latin America and abroad.  While other genres of Latin American music have remained associated with specific countries or regions, cumbia has grown to be one of the most widespread and unifying musical genres to emerge from Latin America.
Cumbia Banda Calypso Volume 6