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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).
Port of La Romana is private property and is supervised by the Dominican Port Authority. 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).
La Altagracia is the second largest province in the country with an extension of 3,010.34 km 2 (1,162.30 sq mi). This province limits to the north with the Atlantic Ocean, to the south with the Caribbean Sea, to the east with the Mona channel and to the west with the provinces of La Romana and El Seibo.
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.
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 ...
La Romana is a port city ranked as Dominican Republic's 7th-largest by population (around 130,000, metro around 215,000). The city is located opposite Catalina Island, and approx 80 km (50 mi) from Santo Domingo.
Altos de Chavón is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of a 16th-century Mediterranean–style village, located atop the Chavón River in the city of La Romana, Dominican Republic. [1] It is the most popular attraction in the city and hosts a cultural center, an archeological museum, and an amphitheater.