Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
Dominican Republic The Mona Passage ( Spanish : Canal de la Mona ) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico . The Mona Passage connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean Sea and is an important shipping route between the Atlantic and the Panama Canal .
CDN is broadcast at the national level in the Dominican Republic. Internationally, it is available online. [3] [4] [5] CDN Channel 37 is a broadcast television station in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, providing news and entertainment for the Dominican Republic
Tourism in the Dominican Republic is an important sector of the country's economy. More than 10 million tourists visited the Dominican Republic in 2023, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] making it the most popular tourist destination in the Caribbean and putting it in the top 5 overall in the Americas . [ 3 ]
Aerial picture of coastal Cotubanamá National Park, displaying the Catuano Straight and Saona Island. Cotubanamá National Park (formerly Parque Nacional del Este) is located on the lower southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, spanning across the provinces of La Altagracia and La Romana with an area of 791.9 km 2 (305.8 sq mi) which includes a range of dense humid and dry subtropical ...
Color Visión was founded on July 25, 1968 as the first color television station in the Dominican Republic and the third such company in Latin America as a whole and began regularly scheduled programming on November 30, 1969, in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros. The first transmissions were from the Matum hotel, in Santiago.
The airport is the busiest in the Dominican Republic, and the second-busiest of the Caribbean, only behind Puerto Rico's Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport. In 2022, more than 8.3 million passengers (arrivals and departures combined) passed through the terminals that year, with almost 50,000 commercial aircraft operations.
The Greater Antilles includes the Cayman Islands and larger islands of Cuba, Hispaniola (subdivided into the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and Navassa Island, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico. The Lesser Antilles contains the northerly Leeward Islands and the southeasterly Windward Islands as well as the Leeward Antilles just north of ...