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Arroz con dulce – rice pudding made with long-grain rice, milk, sugar, cinnamon, raisins, star anis, clove, and nutmeg. Buñuelos de bacalao – a codfish fritter popular throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. Also known as bacalaíto in the Dominican Republic. Crème caramel – sweet egg custard known as flan.
Name Title Presentation of credentials Termination of mission Notes John M. Langston: Chargé d'Affaires: March 26, 1884: Transmitted recall by mail, June 23, 1885
Yaroa is a Dominican street food that originated from Santiago. [1] [2] [3] It is made from French fries or a mash of a root vegetable or tuber such as plantain or yuca, then layered with meat and then cheese.
The Dominican Republic [a] 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 ...
Dominican Republic people and culture. The culture of the Dominican Republic is a diverse mixture of different influences from around the world. The Dominican people and their customs have origins consisting predominantly in a European cultural basis, with native Taíno and African influences.
Pedro Santana y Familias, 1st Marquess of Las Carreras (June 29, 1801 – June 14, 1864) was a Dominican soldier and politician who served three times as the president of the First Dominican Republic (1844–1861) and was the first governor-general during the period of annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain (1861–1865), accomplished at Santana's request.
Dominicans in Santiago de los Caballeros. In the center of the cross is the Dominican coat of arms, in the same colors as the national flag. The coat of arms pictures a red, white, and blue flag-draped shield with a Bible, a gold cross, and arrows; the shield is surrounded by an olive branch (on the left) and a palm branch (on the right).
Dominican Republic has an embassy in Washington, D.C. and consulates-general in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, San Juan and Mayagüez. United States has an embassy in Santo Domingo. Uruguay: 27 November 1925: See Dominican Republic–Uruguay relations. Dominican Republic has an embassy in Montevideo.