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Bayahíbe is a town in the Dominican Republic, located about 10 miles (16 km) east of La Romana on the shore of the Caribbean Sea with 5,618 inhabitants (2022). [1] Founded as a fishing village in 1874 by Juan Brito and his family, who came from Puerto Rico, the town is now a tourist destination.
Leuenbergeria quisqueyana, known as the Bayahibe rose, [2] is a species of cactus that is endemic to the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, in the Dominican Republic. [ 3 ] Taxonomy
The Bayahibe Rose, the national flower of the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic 's national flower was originally the flower of the caoba (mahogany tree, Swietenia mahagoni ). In 2011, the mahogany was dubbed the national tree, vacating the national flower spot for the Bayahibe rose ( Pereskia quisqueyana ) in order to bring attention ...
According to the Constitution [6] and the law, [7] the municipalities are administered by the municipality's Municipal Office (ayuntamiento), which is a legal entity in its own right consisting of two bodies: the alcadía (Mayor's Office), with the alcalde (), and the Municipal Council (concejo de regidores), with at least five members (regidores).
The name was meant "... to honor Michele da Cuneo, [Columbus'] friend from Savona." [3] By 1500, the Tainos on the island provided Santo Domingo with most of its cassava. [8] The island is the site of a series of shipwrecks dating back to the early Spanish control of the island. At least three vessels wrecked on the island due to storm, or ...
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Francisco Javier Tadeo Domínguez Brito (born October 28, 1965, in Santiago) is a Dominican lawyer and politician.. He has been Minister of Environment and Natural Resources (2016), Minister of Labor (2011), Senator (2006), Attorney General (2004) and District Attorney of the National District (1997).
A personal name, full name or prosoponym (from Ancient Greek prósōpon – person, and onoma –name) [1] is the set of names by which an individual person or animal is known. When taken together as a word-group , they all relate to that one individual. [ 2 ]