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Sabana Grande de Palenque is a municipality of the San Cristóbal province in the Dominican Republic. [3] History. It was ...
The Dominican Republic (Spanish: República Dominicana) is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola. It has an area of 48,670 km 2, including offshore islands. The land border shared with Haiti, which occupies the western three-eighths of the island, [1] [2] is 376 km long. [3]
It was founded by Enrique Bejo (), the Taino chief of Jaragua and hero of Bahoruco, after 14 years of struggle.[clarification needed] Having managed to force the authorities of Santo Domingo to sign a peace treaty, he decided to retire to Boyá in 1533, where he later died.
Barahona, also known as Santa Cruz de Barahona, is the main city of the Barahona Province, in the southwest of the Dominican Republic.It has one of the most active ports in the region, as well as many ecotourism attractions.
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).
San Juan de la Maguana is a city and municipality in the western region of the Dominican Republic and capital of the San Juan province.It was one of the first cities established on the island; founded in 1503, and was given the name of San Juan de la Maguana by San Juan Bautista and the Taino name of the valley: Maguana.
Monción is one of the 3 municipalities of the province in Santiago Rodriguez, Dominican Republic.. Previously it was called Guaraguanó, a name from the Taíno, but in 1898, the President of the Republic at that time, Ulises Heureaux, assigned the name of Monción, in honor of the hero of the Dominican Restoration War, General Benito Monción.
Altamira is a town in the Puerto Plata Province of the Dominican Republic.. The town's name is the subject of at least two different origin traditions. One asserts that when Christopher Columbus first arrived in the area, he took note of the height of the mountains and exclaimed: "Look at the heights."