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[|National Anthem (Himno Nacional)]
Brave men of Quisqueya, Let us sing with strong feeling And let us show to the world Our invincible, glorious banner. Hail, O people who, strong and intrepid, Launched into war and went to death! Under a warlike menace of death, You broke your chains of slavery. No country deserves to be free If it is an indolent and servile slave, If the call does not grow loud within it, Tempered by a virile heroism. But the brave and indomitable Quisqueya Will always hold its head high, For if it were a thousand times enslaved, It would a thousand times regain freedom.

=__POLITICAL MAP__= The relative location of Domincan is Republic is east of Haiti, south of Turks and Caicos, and west of Puerto Rico.

The Capital of Dominican Republic is Santo Domingo The aboslute location of Santo Domingo is 18° 29' N 69° 54' W The major cities of Dominican Republic are Santiago, Azua, and Dajabon

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3 physical features of Dominican Republic are the [|Lake Enriquillo,Pico Duarte, and the Cordillera Central.]

Pico Duarte Lake Enriquillo

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The climate of Dominican republic is tropical maritime.

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[|Leonal Fernandez] is the president of Dominican Republic

The [|currency] of Dominican Republic is a peso (DOB).

The population is 9,183,984 and the major [|languages] of Dominican are Spanish, but english, german, and french are also spoken.

Many people claim their [|religion] to be Caltholic but there is small protestant, Seventh Day Adventist, Bapist, Mormon and Jewish.

The life expectancy for males are around 70 years and for a female it is around 72 years. The [|literacy rate] is 85 % for men and women ( 2003 est )

Their [|ethnic groups] are 73% european, 16% african, and 11 % origin.

The [|major exports] of Dominican Republic is ferro-nickel, raw sugar, derivatives, molasses, coffee, cocoa, tobacco, gold, silver.

Depending on the [|flight] choice that you pick the price ranges from around 280-400 dollars round trip. (to Santo Domingo the capital)

Europeans ruled Dominican Republic and was founded by Christopher Columbus ( Hispaniola is the wholes entire island )

Dominican Republic is in the Carribean and in the Western hemisphere. =10_Interesting_statistics= 1.Many people celebrate holidays in the Dominican Republic such as Independence day,[|Epiphany], and Our Lady of Mercedes. Also he are holidays tey celebrate that are fimiliarto us suchas Christmas, New Years, Easter and more.

2. Dominican Republic gained [|independence] from Haiti, February 27th, 1844.

3. Dominican Republic gets $11.39 billion for importsand only $6.495 billion for imports.

4. Dominican Republic was [|December 5th, 1492/] the Dominican Republic was discovered by Christopher Columbus during his first voyage.

5. Columbus' brother, Bartholomew, was appointed governor of Hispaniola and in 1496 he ws the founder of the city Saint Domingo.

6. The island of [|the island of Hispaniola remained under Spanish control until1697] when the western third of the island became a French possession.

7. A couple of leaders before Leonel Fernandez there was a dictator (bad leader), Raphael Leonidas Trujilo he lasted from 1924 to 1961, he was ambushed.

8. Raphael Leonidas Teujilo's death is now a [|public holiday] in The Dominican Republic to this day.

9. Leonel Fernandez was a president before he was the president in 1996 and has been elected today also.

10.The United states had intervened in the civil war President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered in forces that eventually totaled 20,000



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[|February 1930-May 30, 1961] For three decades, the US Marine-trained Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina rules the Dominican Republic as a brutal dictator. His regime, backed by the US during most of its reign, is responsible for many atrocities, including the assassinations and kidnappings of political adversaries. In 1937, inspired by the racist philosophies of his era, Trujillo sends troops to the Haitian border where they massacre 19,000

[|December 1962] Juan Bosch, a leftist reformer, is elected president in the Dominican Republic’s first democratic elections in nearly four decades defeating Trujillo’s heir, Joaquin Balaguer.

[|February 1963-September 1963] Juan Bosch takes office. A liberal anti-communist, he attempts to implement significant economic and social reforms including land reform, nationalization of some businesses and physical infrastructure development. Though opposed to communism, he respects the right of communists to speak and assemble freely

[|September 25, 1963] In the Dominican Republic, the government of Juan Bosch is overthrown by an archconservative faction of the military led Colonel Elias Wessin y Wessin and replaced with a civilian triumvirate.

[|April 24, 1965] 500 US troops invade the Dominican Republic to crush a popular revolt aimed at returning John Bosch to power. The US presence in the Dominican quickly grows, with an additional 4,000 troops arriving a few days later.

[|April 24, 1965-September 1966] US troops in the Dominican Republic (see [|April 24, 1965]), as well as forces from Honduras, Brazil and Costa Rica, remain in that country for about one year. During that time, about 2000 Dominicans are killed—as the New York Times notes at the t Following 22 years of occupation by Haiti the Dominican Republic was 'born' after Dominican independence was declared in time

1844, although the two countries continued battling for many years afterwards:- — “fighting and dying for social justice and constitutionalism.”



There is [|rain forest] in the Dominican Republic, which is located 40 km south of Barahona. The rain forest is in a national park where you can also visit the Larimar mines.

Dominican Republic is located in the region of the carribean and is in the western hemisphere

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