Location: Caribbean
Capital: Santo Domingo ( 2.150.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Santiago de los Caballeros, La Vega, San Pedro de Macorìs, La Romana
Population: 8,500,000
Area: 48,511 km2
Coin: 1 Dominican peso = 100 centavos
Languages: Spanish
Religions: Roman Catholic
The Independence's Year: 1844
Mountains: Cordillera Central (Pico Duarte)

It constitutes the happy part of the big Caribbean Hispaniola Island (the less happy part is the Republic of Haiti).
It is the nation of the sea, of the sun, of the women and of the thoughtless life without be worried too much about rules and codes (included road one).
It is a turist island with very approachable costs, that puts beside a very beautiful sea to a nature flourishing, favourite from the climate heat with plentiful precipitations.
To the splendid beaches fringed of palms folded by the wind of the international turist resorts of Tip Cana and Bavaro, it opposes fabulous still unknown places, like Island of Saone, Bahiaybe and The Samanà peninsula....

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page Central and Caribbean America Gallery