Geography of the Dominican Republic
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The Dominican Republic （Spanish: República Dominicana） is a country in the West Indies that occupies the eastern five-eighths of Hispaniola.
It has an area of 48,670 km2, including offshore islands.
The land border shared with Haiti, which occupies the western three-eighths of the island, is 376 km long.
The maximum length, east to west, is 390 km from Punta de Agua to Las Lajas, on the border with Haiti.
The maximum width, north to south, is 265 km from Cape Isabela to Cape Beata.
The capital, Santo Domingo, is located on the south coast.
The Dominican Republic's shores are washed by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south.
The Mona Passage, a channel about 130 km wide, separates the country （and Hispaniola） from Puerto Rico.
Cordillera Central The Dominican Republic is a country with many mountains, and the highest peaks of the West Indies are found here.
The chains of mountains show a direction northwest–southeast, except in the Southern peninsula （in Haiti） where they have a direction west–east.
The mountains are separated by valleys with the same general direction.
From north to south, the mountain ranges and valleys are: A beach in the Samana province Köppen climate types of the Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic is a tropical, maritime nation.
Owing to its diverse mountainous topography the country's climate shows considerable variation for its size, and has the most diverse climate zones of all the Caribbean islands.
Conditions are ameliorated in many areas by elevation and by the northeast trade winds, which blow steadily from the Atlantic all year long.
The annual mean temperature is 25 °C （77 °F）; regional mean temperatures range from 18 °C （64.4 °F） in the heart of the Cordillera Central （Constanza） to as high as 27 °C （80.6 °F） in arid regions.
Temperatures rarely rise above 32 ...