Santo Domingo Province

**Santo Domingo** is a Dominican province. It is in the southern part of the country, on the Caribbean coast. Its capital city is Santo Domingo Este.

## Name

The Santo Domingo province is named after the city of Santo Domingo, which has been always the capital city of the country.

## History

The province was created on 16 October 2001. It was part of the Distrito Nacional (_National District_) before being elevated to the category of province with most of the territory of the old Distrito Nacional.

The new province had the municipalities of Santo Domingo Este, Santo Domingo Oeste, Santo Domingo Norte and Boca Chica. San Antonio de Guerra became a municipality in 2004, and Pedro Brand and Los Alcarrizos in 2005.

The municipal districts of the province were created in:

- 2001: La Victoria
- 2004: Hato Viejo, San Luis and La Caleta
- 2005: Palmarejo-Villa Linda, Pantoja, La Guáyiga and La Cuaba

## Location

The Santo Domingo province is bordered to the north by the province of Monte Plata, to the east by the San Pedro de Macorís province, to the south by the Caribbean Sea and to the west by San Cristóbal.

## Population

In  (last national census), there were  people living in the Santo Domingo province, and 2,084,651 () living in towns and cities. The population density was  persons/km².

Its population represents  of the total population of the country and the province is ranked as the 1st (out of 31 plus the National District) more populated province.

, the total estimated propulation of the province is 2,702,028 inhabitants.

The largest urban area of the province is Santo Domingo Este, its head municipality or capital, with an urban population (in ) of 851,853 inhabitants.

## Geography

The Santo Domingo province has a total area of . It has  of the area of the Dominican Republic and it is ranked as the 16th (out of 31 plus the National District) largest province.

The altitude of the provincial capital, Santo Domingo Este, is  above sea level.

The Santo Domingo province is in the "Llano Costero del Caribe" ("Caribbean Coastal Plain"), a large plain in southeastern Dominican Republic. There are not mountains in the province, only some low hills.

The most important rivers are Haina, that makes the western border of the province, and the Ozama with its tributary La Isabela and that separates the province from the Distrito Nacional.

### Climate

The climate of the province is a tropical climate, hot most of the year.

## Municipalities

There are 7 municipalities and 8 municipal districts (M.D.) in the province.

|Municipality (code) !! Municipal Districts (code) !! Population <small>(2010)</small> !! Area <small>(km<sup>2</sup>)</small> !! Density !! Altitude <small>(m)</small>||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Santo Domingo Este (320101)|891,952|123.3||35||
||San Luis (320102)|56,933|45.9||15|
|**Santo Domingo Este** (320100)|948,885|169.2||||
|Santo Domingo Oeste (320201)|363,321|54.0||25||
|**Santo Domingo Oeste** (320200)|363,321|54.0||||
||Instituto (320102)|56,933|45.9||15|
|Santo Domingo Norte (320301)|468,468|172.1||35||
||La Victoria (320302)|60,922|215.8||20|
|**Santo Domingo Norte** (320300)|529,390|387.9||||
|Boca Chica (320401)|78,882|106.5||1||
||La Caleta (320402)|63,137|34.3||12|
|**Boca Chica** (320400)|142,019|140.9||||
|San Antonio de Guerra (320501)|38,215|228.8||22||
||Hato Viejo (320502)|5,748|54.9||20|
|**San Antonio de Guerra** (320500)|43,963|283.7||||
|Los Alcarrizos (320601)|206,557|31.8||53||
||Palmarejo-Villa Linda (320602)|16,099|7.2||38|
||Pantoja (320603)|50,120|6.2||39|
|**Los Alcarrizos** (320600)|272,776|45.2||||
|Pedro Brand (320701)|40,970|54.6||69||
||La Guáyiga (320702)|23,222|26.9||46|
||La Cuaba (320703)|9,824|139.9||92|
|**Pedro Brand** (320700)|74,016|221.4||||
|**Santo Domingo** (320000)||1,302.2||||

## Economy

It is the province of highest economic activity in the country, with many industries and companies in its territory.

Tourism is an important activity in Boca Chica because there is a beach with white sand.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Santo Domingo
- **settlement type**: Provinces of the Dominican Republic, Province
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **image map**: Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic.svg
- **map caption**: Location of the Santo Domingo Province
- **leader title1**: Congress of the Dominican Republic, Congresspersons
- **leader name1**: 1 Senator
36 Deputies
- **government type**: Subdivisions
- **governing body**: 8 municipalities
7 List of municipalities of the Dominican Republic#Administration, municipal districts
- **seat**: Santo Domingo Este
- **seat type**: Capital
- **established title**: Province since
- **established date**: 2001
- **area total km2**: 1296.35
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone1**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset1**: -4
- **blank name**: Area code
- **blank info**: 1–809 1–829 1–849
- **blank1 name**: ISO 3166-2
- **blank1 info**: DO-32
- **blank2 name**: Postal Code
- **blank2 info**: 10700 to 11999