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In 2015, around 1.6 million people lacked access to "improved" water and 1.7 million lacked access to "improved" sanitation. In the Dominican Republic, 84% of the total population had access to "improved" water, 86% of the urban population and 81% of the rural population. As for sanitation, 84% of the total population, 86% and 76%, urban and ...
Hospital General de la Plaza de la Salud (HGPS) is a non-profit entity with self-management in the selection and recruitment of staff and in the formulation and use of its budget. It is located on Avenida Ortega y Gasset Ensanche La Fe, Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic . The HGPS is technically and administratively ...
The Dominican Republic [a] is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with Haiti, [15] [16] making Hispaniola one of only two Caribbean islands, along with Saint Martin, that is ...
Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata, is a major coastal city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of the province of Puerto Plata. [4] The city is a major trading port. Puerto Plata has resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, which are located east of the city proper. There are 100,000 hotel beds in the city.
Silver Bank as Bank of Argent in the lower right of an 1873 map of the Bahamas. Silver Bank ( Spanish: Banco de la Plata) [1] is a submerged bank in the Atlantic Ocean north of the Dominican Republic and southeast of the territory of Turks and Caicos Islands. It covers an area of 1,680 square kilometres (649 square miles). [2]
Luperón is a town in the Puerto Plata province of the Dominican Republic. It lies in a coastal bay in the north of the country and is a small tourist center. The town is named after the Dominican president, Gregorio Luperón, who is depicted on the city's seal. The town was formerly known as Blanco (White) or Pueblo Blanco (White Town ...
UTC -4. Area code. 1 809/829. Climate. Aw. Padre Las Casas is a municipality ( municipio) of the Azua province in the Dominican Republic. It includes the municipal districts ( distritos municipal) of La Siembra, Las Lagunas, and Los Fríos. [1] Padre Las Casas is located in the foothills of the Cordillera Central.
Altamira is a town in the Puerto Plata Province of the Dominican Republic.. The town's name is the subject of at least two different origin traditions. One asserts that when Christopher Columbus first arrived in the area, he took note of the height of the mountains and exclaimed: "Look at the heights."