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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.
The current airport has been open for 22 years and opened in December 2000 and replaced the earlier La Romana Airport with the same name and IATA code. The old airport was on the Caribbean shore, 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southwest of the current airport. [ 6 ]
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). This harbor was formerly only for exportation of the sugar mill, but in consequence of the tourism development in the Dominican Republic , Central Romana Corporation decided to add a new ...
Catalina Island or Isla Catalina is a tropical island in the Caribbean Sea located 2.4 kilometres (1.5 mi) from the mainland on the south-east corner of the Dominican Republic, near the provinces of La Altagracia and La Romana. It is an occasional destination for cruise ships on Caribbean routes.
February 7, 2008, A Caribair flight crashed close to La Romana, when its engines stopped. There were no fatalities, but the pilot had some injuries. The aircraft was a Britten Norman Islander BN-2A, registered as HI-653CA, and had departed on a flight to Punta Cana International Airport via La Romana International Airport at around 18:00 local ...
Bayahíbe is a town in the Dominican Republic, located about 10 miles (16 km) east of La Romana on the shore of the Caribbean Sea with 5,618 inhabitants (2022). [1] Founded as a fishing village in 1874 by Juan Brito and his family, who came from Puerto Rico, the town is now a tourist destination.
The Central Romana company is an Agro-Industrial, tourist company and works in free zones; it employs more than 25,000 people. 56% of the tourist infrastructures in the city of La Romana have been built by the private sector with the help of the Central Bank, generating more jobs and contributing to the development of the province. This ...
The latter is currently Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of the Dominican Republic (Ley No. 5220 sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana), issued 1959 and frequently amended to create new provinces and lower-level administrative units.