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Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. It has one municipal district ( distrito municipal ), San Luis. [3] Santo Domingo Este is across the Ozama River which divides the east and west sections of metropolitan Santo Domingo.
The Santo Domingo Metro ( Spanish: Metro de Santo Domingo) is a rapid transit system in Greater Santo Domingo. Serving the capital of the Dominican Republic, it is the most extensive metro system in the insular Caribbean and Central American region by length and number of stations. It began operation on January 30, 2009.
The municipalities of the Dominican Republic are, after the regions and the provinces, the third level of the political and administrative division of the Dominican Republic . The division of provinces into municipalities ( municipios) is established in the Constitution [1] and further regulated by Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of the ...
The Dominican Republic Government Railway ( United Dominican Railways or Ferrocarriles Unidos Dominicanos) was a 139 km (86 mi) 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway. Now defunct. Narrow Gauge Sugar Cane railway in San Pedro de Macorís. There are 240 km (149 mi) operated by other sugarcane companies in various gauges: 557 mm ( 21. +.
No. of cables. 2. The Teleférico de Santo Domingo is an aerial cable car urban transit system in Greater Santo Domingo, operated as part of the Santo Domingo Metro. [2] It is the first urban-transport aerial cable car line in the Dominican Republic. It functions as a typical monocable gondola, and runs for 5 kilometers and a total of four ...
Treaty defeated in the U.S. Senate - June 30, 1870. The annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex "The Spanish province of Santo Domingo" (as the Dominican Republic was commonly known) as a United States territory, with the ...
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 division of the country into provinces is laid down in the constitution (Title I, Section II, Article 5) [1 ...
Santo Domingo ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanto ðoˈmiŋɡo] meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. [7]