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La Romana is a municipality and capital of the southeastern province of La Romana, opposite Catalina Island. It is one of the 10 largest cities in the Dominican Republic with a population estimated in 2022 at 153,241 within the city limits ( metropolitan population: 270,000), of whom 149,840 are urban and 3,401 are rural.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Quebradillas is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
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 Central Romana company is an Agro-Industrial, tourist company and works in free zones; it employs more than 25,000 people. 56% of the tourist infrastructures in the city of La Romana have been built by the private sector with the help of the Central Bank, generating more jobs and contributing to the development of the province. This ...
It was built in the 1950s by the Central Romana division of the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company (which was later acquired by Gulf and Western Industries). This harbor was formerly only for exportation of the sugar mill, but in consequence of the tourism development in the Dominican Republic , Central Romana Corporation decided to add a new ...
Cacao is a barrio in the municipality of Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 4,663. Its population in 2010 was 4,663. One of the communities within this barrio is named Cacao Community and in 2010 had a population of 1,001.
La Romana International Airport; La Romana Men (volleyball club) La Romana Women, volleyball club; La Romana, Alicante, a village in Valencia, Spain; Pedro Caro, 3rd Marquis of la Romana (1761–1811), Spanish general of the Peninsular War Diego del Alcázar, 10th Marquis of la Romana (born 1950), Spanish entrepreneur; The Woman of Rome ...
Diego de Torres Vargas was allowed to circumvent this strict prohibition and in 1647 wrote Descripción de la Ciudad e Isla de Puerto Rico ("Description of the Island and City of Puerto Rico"). This historical book was the first to make a detailed geographic description of the island. [296]