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 The Dominican Republic or Santo Domingo with which more times is associated, it is a Presidential Republic and it occupies the oriental part of the Hispaniola island. It confines to east with Haiti while to west the channel of Mona separates it from the island of Puerto Rico.
The island Hispaniola belongs to the Great Antilles and is the second for greatness after Cuba.
The territory is predominantly mountainous and the mountainous chain most important is the Cordillera Central that it crosses island from northeast to southwest northeast, it raises it over the 3 000 meters with the Pico Duarte (3 098 meters), that represents the most elevated top of the island and all the Antilles.
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The Dominican Republic is a fertile territory thanks to the numerous rivers scattered on the whole territory.
The economy of the island is based on the agriculture (sugar reed, tobacco, bananas, coffee, laughed, cocoa, corn, tomatoes, pineapple, walnut-trees of coconut) and on the tourism, interesting are the resources of the subsoil (bauxite, nickel, iron, gold, silver and rock-salt), a little developed are the cattle farm (cattle, pig) and the fishing.
The Dominican Republic is administratively divided in the 31 provinces. Additionally to these, the capital Saint Domingo belongs to the Nacional District . Provinces are divided to them it turns in municipality.
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Points of greater interest of the Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo)
Here following we have selected the places of greater historical and landscape cultural interest of the island. Soon we will furnish information detailed for each of them.
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What to see and to visit
