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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic skyline. Santo Domingo may refer to Santo Domingo de Guzmán, the sole municipality of the Distrito Nacional, or the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo spread over several municipalities, which as such is not an administrative or political entity. The 2002 census does not give data for metropolitan areas.
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Morovis is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
Like all municipalities of Puerto Rico, Caguas is subdivided into administrative units called barrios, which are, in contemporary times, roughly comparable to minor civil divisions, [1] (and means wards or boroughs or neighborhoods in English).
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.
Between 1916 and 1924, the American presence in the province influenced the planting of cane and the construction of the hacienda. In 1927, the first aviation company of the Caribbean region was started in Barahona. The service was inaugurated between the cities of Barahona, Santa Cruz, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Port-au-Prince Haiti.
Puerto Rico Highway 14 (PR-14) is a main highway connecting Ponce to Cayey, Puerto Rico. [2] The road runs the same course as the historic Carretera Central. The Ponce-to-Coamo section of PR-14 was built under the direction of Spanish engineer Raimundo Camprubí Escudero (b. Pamplona 15 March 1846 – d. Madrid 1924). [3]
Moreta Castillo, Américo "El Santo Domingo del Siglo XVIII a través del Libro Becerro". "CLIO" 74 (Santo Domingo, 2007) pp. 43–66. González Hernández, Julio Amable "Toponomía y Genealogía: La Ciudad Colonial (2 de 15)". "IDG" (Santo Domingo, 2007) Alemar, Luis "La Ciudad de Santo Domingo: Santo Domingo, Ciudad Trujillo". "Editora de ...
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).