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The border between Colombia and the Dominican Republic is an international maritime boundary that runs through the Caribbean Sea, defined by the Liévano-Jiménez Treaty, signed on January 13, 1978, in Santo Domingo by the foreign ministers of both countries, Indalecio Liévano Aguirre for Colombia and Ramón Emilio Jiménez for the Dominican Republic, and approved by the Congress of the ...
The Dominican peso, officially the peso dominicano since 2010, is the currency of the Dominican Republic. Its symbol is "$", with "RD$" used when distinction from other pesos (or dollars) is required; its ISO 4217 code is "DOP". Each peso is divided into 100 centavos ("cents"), for which the ¢ symbol is used.
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 ...
In January 2025 the president of the Dominican Republic Luis Abinader announced that the first biometric passports are now expected to be introduced in August 2025. Dominican Republic citizens are among only a few Latin American nations, such as Bolivia and Ecuador, that still do not enjoy a visa-free regime with the European Union.
Half peso oro notes were also produced by the Banco de la República in 1943 by cutting in half 1 peso notes. The Banco de la República introduced 200 and 1,000 peso oro notes in 1974 and 1979, respectively, whilst 1 and 2 peso oro notes ceased production in 1977, followed by 10 pesos oro in 1980, 5 pesos oro in 1981, 20 pesos in 1983 and 50 ...
DR-1 connects Santo Domingo to the fertile Cibao region, Dominican Republic's second most populated city Santiago de los Caballeros and ends in the Dominico-Haitian border close to Monte Cristi. DR-2 gives Santo Domingo a direct link to the mid-size cities located in the southwestern region of the country and a second connection with Haiti.
As of 2010 Dominican Republic population census, the city of Santiago de los Caballeros had 691,262 inhabitans, Of these, a total of 550,753 live in the urban area of the municipality, while some 41,232 live in the rural area, which indicates that there is a minimal incidence of populations established in peri-urban and rural areas (6.96% of ...
San Juan de la Maguana is a city and municipality in the western region of the Dominican Republic and capital of the San Juan province.It was one of the first cities established on the island; founded in 1503, and was given the name of San Juan de la Maguana by San Juan Bautista and the Taino name of the valley: Maguana.