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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).
Santiago (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo]) is a province which currently comprises one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic.It is divided into 10 municipalities and its capital city is Santiago de los Caballeros.
This is a list of banks in Dominican Republic as of November 2010, published by the Bank Superintendency, including credit unions and other financial services companies that offer banking services and may be popularly referred to as "banks".
Santiago is known as "La Ciudad Corazón" (the "Heartland City"). [8] Santiago de los Caballeros has historically been an important strategic city in the Dominican War of Independence. The city's name, Saint James of the Knights, refers to the Hidalgos de la Isabela, a group of knights who had come from La Isabela city to stay in Santiago.
According to the Constitution [6] and the law, [7] the municipalities are administered by the municipality's Municipal Office (ayuntamiento), which is a legal entity in its own right consisting of two bodies: the alcadía (Mayor's Office), with the alcalde (), and the Municipal Council (concejo de regidores), with at least five members (regidores).
English: Location map Dominican Republic with Provinces, Equirectangular projection, N/S stretching 105 %. Geographic limits of the map: Geographic limits of the map: N: 20.3° N
Santiago de los Caballeros is the economic center of the Cibao region.. El Cibao occupies the central and northern part of the Dominican territory. To the north and east of the region lies the Atlantic Ocean; to its west lies the Republic of Haiti and to the south the Central Range, which separates El Cibao from the other natural regions.
Santiago Rodríguez. The capital town of the province was founded in 1844 by Santiago Rodríguez, who was an officer of the Dominican army in the Dominican War of Independence. He was one of the founders of the city of Sabaneta and an important military leader during the initial stages of the Restoration War (1863–1865). Sabaneta was the ...