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2013 US$1 to RD$40.4; 2016 US$1 to RD$45; In 2004 the peso dramatically plummeted; a single US dollar was worth almost RD$60. In August 2020, RD$59 mark was temporarily crossed again. As of February 8, 2023, US$1 buys around 56.30 pesos. As of April 5, 2024, US$1 buys around 59.24 pesos. In September 2024, the U.S. dollar surpassed the RD$60 mark.
The bank penetration is approximately 33.7% and the main banks in DR are Banco Popular Dominicano, Banco de Reservas de la Republica Dominicana, Banco BHD. External links [ edit ]
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 ...
José Sesin Abinader, the grandfather of Luis Abinader (April 1945) Abinader was born in Santo Domingo on 12 July 1967. His parents were born in Santiago in the northern region of the country: his mother, Rosa Ramona Sulina "Sula" Corona Caba, [4] is from a family of colonial Spanish origin; most of her ancestors hail from San José de las Matas. [5]
The city was named after its founder, the "Comendador of Lares" (Comendador was the chief of a military or religious order) but on 29 November 1930 it was changed to Elías Piña.
Boca Chica is a municipality of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district ( distritos municipal ): La Caleta . [ 5 ] As of the 2022 census it had 167,040 inhabitants, 104,951 living in the city itself and 62,089 in its rural districts ( Secciones ).
Provinces of the Dominican Republic map. The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty-one provincias (provinces; singular provincia), while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ("National District"; "D.N." on the map below).
The name San Pedro came before that of Macorís. [citation needed] There are three versions regarding the origin of the name: the first attributes it to the fact that there is a San Pedro Beach in the city port; the second sees it as a tribute to General Pedro Santana, who was president at the time; and the third simply said it was in order to distinguish it from San Francisco de Macorís, a ...