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The Cibao Valley (Dominican Republic) is the largest and the most important valley of the country. This long valley stretches from North Haiti, where is called Plaine du Nord , to Samaná Bay. It can be divided in two sections: the northwestern part is the Yaque del Norte Valley (or Línea Noroeste ) and the eastern Yuna Valley (or Vega Real ...
Location of the Dominican Republic – The Dominican Republic is located within the following regions or bodies of water: Northern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. North America (though not on the mainland) – Greater North America may be geographically subdivided into Northern America, Central America, and the Caribbean; Atlantic Ocean
The Dominican Republic [a] is a North American country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea in the North Atlantic Ocean.It shares a maritime border with Puerto Rico to the east and a land border with Haiti to the west, occupying the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola which, along with Saint Martin, is one of only two islands in the Caribbean shared ...
The Dominican Republic is divided into three macro-regions, which are in turn divided into ten regions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1858 the country was divided in 3 departments: Cibao (North), Ozama (Southwest), and Seybo (Southeast).
The following is a list of ecoregions in the Dominican Republic, as identified by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). Terrestrial ecoregions.
Into the Paleogene at the start of the Cenozoic, volcanism, metamorphism and plutonism continued underwater until the Eocene, still largely below water.However, by the middle Eocene, the amalgamated island arcs collided with the southern margin of the North American Plate at the Florida-Bahama Platform, leading to the formation of extensive carbonates and the end of volcanism and plutonism.
Geography of the Dominican Republic by province (32 C). Geography of Santo Domingo (1 C, 8 P) * Dominican Republic geography-related lists (1 C, 13 P) B.
The Ozama's basin is the fourth largest in the Dominican Republic. The river has several tributaries, with a combined area of 2,706 square kilometers (1,045 sq mi). The river basin has an annual precipitation of 1,400 mm (55 in) to 2,250 mm (89 in) per year.