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Villa Mella (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈbiʝa ˈmeʝa]), or San Felipe de Villa Mella, is a municipality in Santo Domingo Norte, Dominican Republic.Villa Mella is located north of the Isabela River, about 6 miles (or 10 kilometers) to the north of the center of Santo Domingo, and is considered an additional neighborhood of the capital.
Santo Domingo Norte was created as a municipality in 2001 by Law 163-01 splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional including those parts of metropolitan Santo Domingo north of the Isabela River. [4] [5]
The provinces as the second level of political and administrative division contain at least two municipalities. The Distrito Nacional, which is neither a municipality nor a province, consists of only one municipality, Santo Domingo (Constitution: "the city of Santo Domingo de Guzmán is the Distrito Nacional" [5]).
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.
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Its two lanes run mostly through metropolitan Santo Domingo and it connects the Distrito Nacional with Santo Domingo Norte and Villa Mella. DR-13 is the only highway in Santo Domingo that crosses Greater Santo Domingo in its entirety. It runs from the coast up to Villa Mella where the highway is then referred to as Avenida Maximo Gomez while in ...
Sixto Minier (March 28, 1920 – April 29, 2008) was a folklorist in the Dominican Republic. He is recognized for his leadership of the group "Los Congos de Villa Mella," a longstanding spiritual brotherhood or "cofradia" in the Dominican Republic whose practices belong to the complex of Caribbean cultural expressions of the African diaspora. [1] "
Villa - the urban outskirts of both the old city of Santo Domingo and the current (smaller) Distrito Nacional. Bella Vista, Dominican Republic skyline. Centro de los Héroes neighborhood. Gazcue neighborhood, Dominican Republic. Parque Mirador Sur, Santo Domingo