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Housing Units (2000): 1115
Land area (2000): 2.141198 sq. miles (5.545678 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.141198 sq. miles (5.545678 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79564
Located within: Puerto Rico (PR), FIPS 72
Location: 18.066682 N, 66.749477 W
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Santo Domingo
Wikipedia
Santo Domingo ( meaning " Saint Dominic"), officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest city in the Caribbean by population. In 2010, its population was counted as 965,040, rising to 2,908,607 when its surrounding metropolitan area was included. The city is coterminous with the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional ("D.N.", "National District"), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province.
Founded by Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, on the east bank of the Ozama River and then moved by Nicolás de Ovando in 1502 to the west bank of the river, the city is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and was the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule in the New World. Santo Domingo is the site of the first university, cathedral, castle, monastery, and fortress in the New World. The city's Colonial Zone was declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Santo Domingo was called Ciudad Trujillo , from 1936 to 1961, after the Dominican Republic's dictator, Rafael Trujillo, named the capital after himself. Following his assassination, the city resumed its original designation.
Santo Domingo is the cultural, financial, political, commercial and industrial center of the Dominican Republic, with the country's most important industries being located within the city. Santo Domingo also serves as the chief seaport of the country. The city's harbor at the mouth of the Ozama River accommodates the largest vessels, and the port handles both heavy passenger and freight traffic. Temperatures are high year round, with a cool breeze around winter time.
Santo Domingo, Spanish for Saint Dominic, may refer to:
Santo Domingo in Mexico City refers to the Church of Santo Domingo and its Plaza, also called Santo Domingo. Both are located three blocks north of the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral following Republica de Brasil Street with Belisario Dominguez Street separating the two.
Santo Domingo (La Rioja, Argentina) is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina.
Santo Domingo is a neighbourhood (barrio) of Asunción, Paraguay.
Santo Domingo is a station on Line 2 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in fare Zone A.
Usage examples of "santo domingo".
They would not be able to hold out long against the rebellious blacks that hemmed them in here in the eastern end of Santo Domingo.
Was the black from Santo Domingo recovered from the mysterious knife-wound?
Rows of books lined the walls, and the wide windows were cracked open upon a view of the Church of Santo Domingo, its cross bright in the morning sunlight.
Yet twenty years later you wanted to annex Santo Domingo without consulting that nation’.
It was Alliance captains, it was Family ships hauling for Union, it was Union Boreale, whose reputation for strait-laced probity and cloned-man humorlessness dissolved in multiple bottles and a wit that had the Celestial and Santo Domingo captains alike wiping their eyes, red-faced.
He and Stecker had been in Santo Domingo, Nicaragua, and France together.
But in '72 Pasqualis disappeared, sailed for Santo Domingo, and left everything up in the air.
Renamed Santo Domingo, this became the first permanent European settlement in the New World.
He stared blankly through the gate left open after the Petit Jour had sailed from the harbour, set on its northwesterly course to Santo Domingo.
Negroes from Santo Domingo had fomented insurrection in South Carolina.
Geraldo, who was sixteen years old, and skinny as a needle, had just got here from Santo Domingo two months ago, and he didn’.
My ship headed south and west, bypassing Santo Domingo with a good northeast wind in our sails, for three days.
Frenchmen followed, first from Haiti-Santo Domingo after the slave revolt, then royalists from France proper.