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The division of the country into provinces is laid down in the constitution (Title I, Section II, Article 5) [1] and enacted by law. The latter is currently Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of the Dominican Republic (Ley No. 5220 sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana), issued 1959 and frequently amended to create new ...
Regional divisions and provinces in Dominican Republic Macro-regions Regions Provinces Norte/Cibao: Cibao Nordeste [4] Duarte: Hermanas Mirabal: María Trinidad Sánchez: Samaná: Cibao Noroeste [5] Dajabón: Monte Cristi: Santiago Rodríguez: Valverde: Cibao Norte [6] Espaillat: Puerto Plata: Santiago: Cibao Sur [7] La Vega: Monseñor Nouel ...
In 1969, Frank Rainieri, a Dominican entrepreneur in his 20s with a crop-dusting business, [2] and Theodore Kheel, [3] a New York attorney and labor mediator, acquired a 58-million-square-meter lot on the eastern end of the Dominican Republic, which was covered with jungle and six miles of beach.
Dominican Republic (average) 0.766 2 Region VIII (La Vega, Monsenor Nouel, Sanchez Ramirez) 0.765 3 Region I (Peravia, San Cristobal, San José de Ocoa, Azua) 0.762 Region III (Duarte, Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Hermanas Mirabal, Samana) 5 Region II (Espaillat, Puerto Plata, Santiago) 0.759 6
Pages in category "Provinces of the Dominican Republic" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola. It has an area of 48,670 km 2, including offshore islands. The land border shared with Haiti, which occupies the western three-eighths of the island, [1] [2] is 376 km long. [3]
The first mass immigration from the Dominican Republic to New York City began in the 1960s. [10] At around 2013, Dominicans surpassed the older and previously larger Puerto Rican population to become the largest Hispanic group in New York City, however Dominicans are still second in the overall New York metropolitan area.