Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (Saint Dominic) is the cultural, financial, political, commercial and industrial center of the Dominican Republic, with the vast majority of the country’s most important industries located in the city. Santo Domingo also serves as the country’s main seaport. The city’s port at the mouth of the Ozama River can accommodate the largest vessels and the port handles both heavy passenger and cargo traffic. There are 2 international airports near the city (Las Américas International Airport and La Isabela International Airport)
The colonial city of Santo Domingo, founded in the 15th century in America, the first permanent seat of the “New World” and the capital of the West Indies, was the starting point for the spread of European culture and the conquest of continents. Conquerors such as Ponce de Leon, Juan de Esquivel, Herman Cortes, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Alonso de Ojeda and many others left in search of new lands.
Santo Domingo colonial zone
The colonial city of Santo Domingo, surrounded by its walls, has preserved almost unchanged the extension of its territory, its grid arrangement and most of its architectural monumental structures.
The colonial city of Santo Domingo, surrounded by its walls, has preserved almost unchanged the extension of its territory, its grid arrangement and most of its architectural monumental structures.
It preserves its social structure, its great symbolic value and essentially the various uses that characterize the first buildings of its foundation. Despite pressures from real estate development, hurricane damage, and earthquakes, the basic attributes on which the functional and physical integrity of the city of Santo Domingo is based are preserved.
Las Americas José Francisco Peña Gómez International Airport
Designation: IATA: SDQ
Las Américas International Airport
is an international airport in Punta Caucedo, near Santo Domingo and Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic.
Punta Caucedo is a small cape on the southern coast of the Dominican Republic, 24 km east of Santo Domingo.
Las Américas International Airport is located in Punta Caucedo. It is also a sector in the city of Boca Chica in the province of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
