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The name of Pedernales stems from the mineral flint (pedernal in Spanish), which is a very common variety of quartz of yellowish color "that produces spark with the link". This stone is found in the river of Pedernales, which marks the southernmost part of the frontier between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
Juancho, Pedernales wind farm. According to statistical data, Pedernales is the least densely populated province in the Dominican Republic [citation needed]. For 2010, the total population reached 31,587 people: 16,895 men and 14,692 women, with a density of 15.7 inhabitants / km 2 (inhabitants per square kilometer). The predominant ethnic ...
The river limestone at Pedernales Falls is 300 million years old. Erosion from deposits in the Cretaceous period created the current formations.. Wildlife in the park is typical of the Texas Hill Country, including white-tailed deer, coyotes, rabbits, armadillos, wild hogs, skunks, opossums and raccoons.
The Pedernales River (/ ˌ p ɜːr d ə ˈ n æ l ɪ s / PUR-də-NAL-iss) is a tributary of the Colorado River, approximately 106 miles (171 km) long, in Central Texas in the United States. [2] It drains an area of the Edwards Plateau , flowing west to east across the Texas Hill Country west of Austin .
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Jaragua National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Jaragua) is a Dominican national park located in Pedernales Province, in the extreme southwest of the Dominican Republic. Jaragua has a total area of 1,374 km² (905 km² of which are offshore marine habitats), the largest such protected area in the Caribbean. [1]
Bahía de las Águilas (Spanish: [baˈia ðe las ˈaɣilas]; literally "Eagles’ Bay"), is an 8 km-long (5 mi) beach along the southwestern coast of the Dominican Republic in the province of Pedernales near the southernmost part of the border with Haiti.
The Pedernales Municipality is one of the four municipalities that makes up the eastern Venezuelan state of Delta Amacuro and, according to a 2007 population estimate by the National Institute of Statistics of Venezuela, the municipality has a population of 6,535. [1] The town of Pedernales is the municipal seat of the Pedernales Municipality.