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The Dominican Republic's relationship with neighbouring Haiti is strained over mass Haitian migration to the Dominican Republic, with citizens of the Dominican Republic blaming the Haitians for increased crime and other social problems. [131] The Dominican Republic is a regular member of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.
La Caleta Underwater National Park. Los Haitises National Park. Los Haitises National Park (Parque Nacional Los Haitises) On Samaná Bay, with 700 different plants, and 110 different birds. Monte Cristi National Park (Parque Nacional Monte Cristi) In the northwestern Dominican Republic, near the border with Haiti.
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]
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 ...
The island gained independence as a republic in 1978. Dominica has been nicknamed the "Nature Island of the Caribbean" for its natural environment. [15] It is the youngest island in the Lesser Antilles, and in fact it is still being formed by geothermal-volcanic activity, as evidenced by the world's second-largest hot spring, called Boiling Lake.
Area. • Total. 1,374 km 2 (531 sq mi) • Water. 905 km 2 (349 sq mi) Jaragua National Park (Spanish: Parque Nacional Jaragua) is a Dominican national park located in Pedernales Province, in the extreme southwest of the Dominican Republic. Jaragua has a total area of 1,374 km² (905 km² of which are offshore marine habitats), the largest ...
c. 60 m (200 ft) Surface elevation. 800 m (2,600 ft) The Boiling Lake is a flooded fumarole located in Morne Trois Pitons National Park, a World Heritage Site on the island of Dominica. The lake, located 6.5 miles (10.5 km) east of Dominica's capital Roseau, is filled with bubbling greyish-blue water that is usually enveloped in a cloud of vapour.
Los Haitises National Park. Coordinates: 19.043945°N 69.592896°W. Los Haitises National Park in Samaná as seen from San Lorenzo bay. Los Haitises National Park is a national park located on the remote northeast coast of the Dominican Republic that was established in 1976. It consists of a limestone karst plateau with conical hills, sinkholes ...