Ad
related to: dominican republic mountains map
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Dominican Republic is a country with many mountains, and the highest peaks of the West Indies are found here. The chains of mountains show a direction northwest–southeast, except in the Southern peninsula (in Haiti) where they have a direction west–east. The mountains are separated by valleys with the same general direction.
Pico Duarte is the highest peak in the Dominican Republic, on the island of Hispaniola and in all the Caribbean. At 3,101 m (10,174 ft) above sea level, it gives Hispaniola the 16th-highest maximum elevation of any island in the world. Additionally, it is only 85 kilometres (53 miles) northeast of the region's lowest point, Lake Enriquillo, 46 ...
Of the 20 most isolated major summits of the Caribbean, Pico Duarte and La Grande Soufrière exceed 500 kilometers (310.7 miles) of topographic isolation, seven peaks exceed 200 kilometers (124.3 miles), and 14 peaks exceed 100 kilometers (62.14 miles) of topographic isolation. Of these 20 peaks, three are located in Cuba, two in the Dominican ...
Within the Dominican Republic, the central Cordillera Septentrional spans the strike-slip fault boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates. Faults and folds from the Paleocene to the Pliocene in marine sedimentary rocks indicate its history of uplift, beginning in Eocene pelagic carbonates. Transpression in the Miocene-Pliocene ...
Prominence. 3,098 m (10,164 ft) [1] Geography. Cordillera Central. Dominican Republic. The Cordillera Central is the highest mountain range in the Dominican Republic and in all of the Caribbean, running through the center of the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles. [2] It is connected to the Massif du Nord mountain range in Haiti.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_mountains_in_the_Dominican_Republic&oldid=627372311"
In the southwestern Dominican Republic, with 130 different bird species, and 4,500-year-old Taino pictographs. José Armando Bermúdez National Park (Parque Nacional Armando Bermúdez) In the Cordillera Central mountain range. Contains some of the highest mountains in the Caribbean region, including: Pico Duarte, La Pelona, Loma La Rucilla, and ...
Categories: Mountains by country. Mountains of the Caribbean by country. Mountains of North America by country. Landforms of the Dominican Republic. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.