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Resort building in Sosúa, Dominican Republic. Sosua became a popular tourist destination with the rise of the tourism industry in the Puerto Plata area during the 1980s. In the late 1990s and 2000s Sosúa also became a favorite destination of sex tourists from Europe and North America.
The municipalities of the Dominican Republic are, after the regions and the provinces, the third level of the political and administrative division of the Dominican Republic. The division of provinces into municipalities ( municipios ) is established in the Constitution [ 1 ] and further regulated by Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of the ...
Encuentro Beach is an isolated stretch of beach in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic. Located between the more heavily populated cities of Sosúa and Cabarete this popular surfing beach is accessible to the public via dirt roads. Encuentro Beach consists of five distinctive breaks: [1]
Parade of Puerto Plata city, Dominican Republic. By Resolution of the National Congress dated July 6, 1847, Puerto Plata was elevated from common to Maritime District. It became a province in the year 1850. In 1879 it was the seat of the government of Gregorio Luperón and served as the internal capital of the Republic. [3]
Provinces of the Dominican Republic map. The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty-one provincias (provinces; singular provincia), while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ("National District"; "D.N." on the map below).
This museum is considered the first Museum of Amber of the Dominican Republic and at the same time, is a great historic monument of the city. La Zona Colonial (Casas Victorianas): From 1857, it was initiated in Puerto Plata. The Victorian style originating from England, call thus, in honor of the Queen Victoria, manager of that epoch.
DR-1 connects Santo Domingo to the fertile Cibao region, Dominican Republic's second most populated city Santiago de los Caballeros and ends in the Dominico-Haitian border close to Monte Cristi. DR-2 gives Santo Domingo a direct link to the mid-size cities located in the southwestern region of the country and a second connection with Haiti.
DR-5 is of one of the main highways in the Dominican Republic. [1] The highway begins at a T-interchange with DR-1 in Villa Bisonó in the small town of Navarrete located about 20 kilometers northwest of Santiago de los Caballeros. Its endpoint is the municipal district Las Galeras. [2] Initially DR-5 starts north of Santiago with a junction ...