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Map of the Dominican Republic. Cities in the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the definition of urban population for purposes of the 2002 census, [1] are the urban centers and seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities (municipios singular municipio), the sec level political and administrative subdivisions of the country, or of municipal districts (distritos municipales) within ...
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 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 ...
Diario Libre is a free daily Spanish-language Dominican newspaper, founded on May 10, 2001. It is owned by the Dominican business Grupo Diario Libre, and it is part of the Latin American Newspaper Association.
The Malecon Center is a complex of skyscrapers in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The complex was built in 2003. [2] The complex is divided into four towers: Malecon 1, Malecon 2, Malecon 3 and Hilton Santo Domingo. The three Malecon towers each with a height of 122.4 m (402 ft) are the second tallest buildings in the Dominican Republic.
Central Santo Domingo or better known as Polígono Central (English: Central Polygon) is a term used to group several neighborhoods located in central Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic defined as the area delineated by John F Kennedy Avenue (also known as DR-1) on the north, on the west by Winston Churchill avenue, on the east by Maximo Gomez avenue, and on the south by 27 ...
The Gallery at Gran Caribe was Puerto Rico's 20th largest shopping center, as reported in the Caribbean Business White Pages 2004 directory which was the investment company's first incursion into the local market. Thor Equities acquired the mall, originally called Centro Gran Caribe, in May 2004 from Decemcor for $61.5 million.
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]