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D o m i n i c a n R e p u b l i c // Motto: //// "Dios, Patria, Libertad" //  //T ////r ////a ////v ////e ////l // //S ////i ////t ////<span style="font-size: 72pt; color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">e // //

Dominican Republic is a great vacation spot and a great place to visit. Here I will show and tell you many things from vacation spots to Plants and animals that live here! // // General Info //// : // // Capital: //<span style="font-size: 26pt; color: #2b07c5; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; textunderline: none;">Santo Domingo // Language: //// Spanish // // Population: // 9,523,209 // Ethnic groups: //// 73% mixed, 16% White (Spaniards, French,Italians, others), 11% Black // // President: //// Leonel Fernández // // Vice President: //// Rafael Alburquerque // Climate: The Dominican Republic  is a tropical country w/an annual temperature of 78˚. August is the warmest month averaging 85˚, while January and February are the coldest months. They have a rainy season which is from May until November.

[|Climate in D.R.] <span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> F amou s A ttraction s <span style="font-size: 36pt; color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">• Beaches<span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">• The Dominican Republic's beaches are widely celebrated as being among the world's best, and for good reason. Here, more than 1,000 miles of sugar-colored sand is gently lapped by warm waters so clear and blue one has to see to believe. Depending on location, the beaches offer a gentle lullaby for an Oceanside nap or enough wind to keep a Technicolor kite board adrift.



<span style="font-size: 36pt; color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">• **Santo Domingo** <span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidithemefont: minor-bidi; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;">• The home to the first university, cathedral and hospital built in the New World. The modern city of Santo Domingo, is a thriving port city, equipped with discotheques, gambling casinos, shops and the Cultural Plaza which houses the Gallery of Modern Art and the National Theatre.

[|Santo Domingo] <span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; msofareastfontfamily: Calibri; msofareastthemefont: minor-latin; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidithemefont: minor-bidi; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;"> <span style="font-size: 36pt; color: red; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"> • Amber Coast (Northern Coast)<span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">• <span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Named because some of the most beautiful amber in the world is mined here. The Amber Museum houses a good display of amber pieces found in this area. Puerto Plata (the Silver Port) has some of the finest beaches in the Caribbean Islands. It was founded in 1504 and boasts colonial architecture.

[|Amber Coast]

• <span style="font-size: 36pt; color: red; line-height: 135%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Sports • <span style="font-size: 36pt; color: red; line-height: 135%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> <span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 135%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Dominican Republic is a paradise for the sports lovers offering the biggest variety of sports in the Caribbean. The colorful waters of its gorgeous beaches are the perfect place for windsurfing, jet skiing, scuba diving to explore ship wrecks, sailing, boat rides, deep sea fishing. <span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Inland you can enjoy their golf courses, tennis, polo, horse back riding, shooting and cycling, river rafting and much more .Baseball is the national passion and is played with intensity. The Dominican Republic is the origin of many major leagues players in the United States and Japan. Almost every week, international sport events are celebrated in Santo Domingo where first class sports installation exists.

<span style="font-size: 36pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">• Dominican Republic Holidays and Festivals<span style="font-size: 36pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">• New Year's Day - January 1 Three kings Day - January 6 <span style="font-size: 26pt; color: blue; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Harlow Solid Italic'; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">Carnival - Every Sunday in February - la Vega, Santo Domingo, Monte Cristi and San Cristobal, can sometimes go overboard with the celebrations. People dressed in colorful mask and costumes hit each other with inflated cow and pig bladders as part of the celebration.

Labor day - May 1

United nation day - October 24 All Saints day - November 1