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Santo Domingo was in Spain's gazetteers [8] until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States.
The first official Oxxo store was opened in 1979 in Guadalupe, Nuevo León. Oxxo stores then spread to Chihuahua, Hermosillo, and Nuevo Laredo. Throughout the eighties, Oxxo gained fame in the cities where it was established. In 1998, the 1,000th store was opened. On July 6, 2010, the opening of the 9,000th store, in Oaxaca, was announced. [4]
Telecommunications in the Dominican Republic include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.. Numerous television channels are available. Tricom, S.A, WIND Telecom, S.A., Viva (network operator), and Claro Codetel provide television services digitally, with channels from Latin America and elsewhere in the world.
The provinces as the second level of political and administrative division contain at least two municipalities. The Distrito Nacional, which is neither a municipality nor a province, consists of only one municipality, Santo Domingo (Constitution: "the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is the Distrito Nacional" [5]).
Caribair operated services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Port-au-Prince and Santiago de Cuba. Caribair flew to 26 destinations in nine countries, including Aruba, the Bahamas, Haiti, Netherlands Antilles, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba, and some scheduled charter flights to the United States.
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
Puerto Rico: 12,500 39 Mayagüez Athletics Stadium: Puerto Rico: 12,175 40 Windsor Park: Dominica: 12,000 41 ... Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez – Santo Domingo;
Peñuelas (Spanish pronunciation: [peˈɲwelas], locally [peˈɲwelaʔ]) is a town and municipality in Puerto Rico located in the Peñuelas Valley on the southern coast of the island, south of Adjuntas, east of Guayanilla, west of Ponce and north of the Caribbean Sea.