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Topographic map of Puerto Rico showing the Cordillera Central and its two major subranges. The Puerto Rico Central Mountain Range or Cordillera Central is considered the largest of the three geographical and physiographic provinces of the island, along with the Karst regions and the coastal plains. [2]
Catalina Island or Isla Catalina is a tropical island located 1.5 miles from the mainland on the south-east corner of the Dominican Republic, near La Altagracia and La Romana. It is an occasional destination for cruise ships on Caribbean routes. In particular, Costa Cruises has a private beach on the island.
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.
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The Dominican Republic 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 by ...
The location of Puerto Rico. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Puerto Rico: . The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States of America located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands. [1]
Demographically, municipalities in Puerto Rico are equivalent to counties in the United States, and Puerto Rican municipalities are registered as county subdivisions in the United States census. [2] Statistically, the municipality with the largest number of inhabitants is San Juan , with 342,259, while Culebra is the smallest, with around 1,792.
General physiographic map of Puerto Rico, with mountainous terrain in green, karst in orange, and plains in yellow . Comprising Aguadilla, Isabela, San Sebastián, Aguada, Moca, and Añasco, and Rincón, the Aguadilla metropolitan area is situated between the western and northern coastal plains, the Añasco Valley, Culebrinas Valley, the Northern Karst Belt, and the Cordillera Central mountain ...