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At the end of the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic, which lasted from 1916 to 1924, General Horacio Vásquez was elected president. He began appropriating funds to expand the country's armed forces, as the military had been reduced to a police force during the US occupation.
On February 15, 1970, a Dominicana de Aviación McDonnell Douglas DC-9 operating as Dominciana de Aviación Flight 603 enroute from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic to San Juan, Puerto Rico crashed into the Caribbean Sea shortly after takeoff.
Federacion Dominicana de Baloncesto (Fedombal) Capacity: 8,337: Construction; Opened: 1974: Construction cost: RD$528 Million: Tenants; Dominican Republic national basketball team Leones de Santo Domingo Titanes del Licey Basketball at the 2003 Pan American Games 2010 World Youth Women's Handball Championship
In the late 1970s a road was built to connect the area with the capital of La Altagracia Province, Higüey. Tourists from various countries started to come in. They had to pass through Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo, then take a short flight in a small plane to Punta Cana. The airstrip itself had significant problems, such ...
Area codes 809, 829, and 849 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Dominican Republic.Like all NANP members, the Dominican Republic uses country code 1, and has similar dialing procedures for dialing the 10-digit national telephone numbers, which consist of the area code, a three-digit central office code, and a four-digit line number.
PAWA Dominicana was created in 2003 as a subsidiary of Pan American Airways, which had also operated within a strategic alliance with Boston-Maine Airways.In April 2005, Servair, a Dominican corporation dedicated to offering services to airlines in all airports in the Dominican Republic, acquired the airline completely and began a new certification process within the framework of the new ...
A Dominicana Douglas DC-6B freighter parked at Miami International Airport in 1975 The only McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Dominicana owned. This aircraft crashed in 1970 , killing all 102 people on board Dominicana was established in 1944 in an effort to create a national airline aiming at the large number of Dominican citizens who emigrated to the ...
Map of the Dominican Republic. Cities in the Dominican Republic, in accordance with the definition of urban population for purposes of the 2002 census, [1] are the urban centers and seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities (municipios singular municipio), the sec level political and administrative subdivisions of the country, or of municipal districts (distritos municipales) within ...