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Location in the Dominican Republic. The Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) (English: Autonomous University of Santo Domingo) is a public university system in Dominican Republic, with its flagship campus in Ciudad Universitaria (lit. University City) neighborhood of Santo Domingo and regional campuses in many cities of the country.
Santo Domingo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning " Saint Dominic " but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [ 7 ]
Primary education is compulsory and universal in the Dominican Republic. This is split up into two different cycles. The first cycle is grades 1-4 for children 6–10 years old and the second cycle is grades 5-8 and is for children 10–14 years old. Each grade level encompasses 10 months of teaching.
St. Thomas Aquinas University (Spanish: Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino) was a university in Dominican Republic. It is arguably the first institution of higher education in the Americas. It was founded by papal bull in 1538 in Santo Domingo, in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola, present-day Dominican Republic, although it didn't have the ...
Mateo Aquino Febrillet (September 21, 1955 – March 11, 2016) was a Dominican Republic educator, administrator, writer and politician. He was elected Dean of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo in 2011 and candidate for Senator of the Modern Revolutionary Party in the province of San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic in the last elections of 2016.
Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata; (French: Port-de-Plate) [4] is a major coastal city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of the province of Puerto Plata. [5] The city is a major trading port. Puerto Plata has resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, which are located east of the city proper.
Notable works. Created the first sanctuary for humpback whales. Idelisa Bonnelly de Calventi (10 September 1931 – 3 July 2022) [1] was a Dominican marine biologist who is considered the "mother of marine conservation in the Caribbean ". [2] She was the founder of the study of biology in the Dominican Republic, as well as the founder of the ...
Marileidy Paulino. Marileidy Paulino (born 25 October 1996) [ 4 ] is a Dominican athlete sprinter specializing in the 400 meters. She won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first woman from the Dominican Republic to earn an individual Olympic medal in athletics. [ 5 ] At the subsequent Summer Olympics in Paris, she won ...