Santo Domingo Este is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic . It has one municipal district ( distrito municipal ), San Luis .
7-463: Santo Domingo Este is across the Ozama River which divides the east and west sections of metropolitan Santo Domingo . This eastern side is more residential and less commercially developed, but it too has experienced growth, though at a slower pace than Santo Domingo itself, with new malls and department stores. Santo Domingo Este was created as a separate municipality in 2001 by Law 163-01, which split
14-490: Is also located in the municipality. Companies with a presence in the area include Barceló, Manufacturera Sociedad Industrial, Lácteos Dominicanos, Parmalat, Telever, Codetel, Tricom, as well as construction, energy, and agricultural businesses. When the city was created, these sectors were also divided: Ozama River The Ozama River ( Spanish : Río Ozama ) is a river in the Dominican Republic . It rises in
21-626: Is heavily polluted. It is constantly affected by the slums on its shores and the factories that dump their waste into it. It is one of the main causes of pollution on the coastline of Santo Domingo. In August 2020, The Ocean Cleanup organization deployed an Interceptor Original, one of their solar-powered, automated systems, to help combat the flow of plastics and trash into the Caribbean Sea. Port of Santo Domingo 18°28′00″N 69°53′00″W / 18.4667°N 69.8833°W / 18.4667; -69.8833 This article related to
28-870: The Caribbean Sea . At the end of the journey it bisects the capital, Santo Domingo , into eastern and western halves. The three main tributaries of the Ozama are the Isabela River , the Sabita River and the Yabacao River . The Ozama's basin is the fourth largest in the Dominican Republic. The river has several tributaries, with a combined area of 2,706 square kilometers (1,045 sq mi). The river basin has an annual precipitation of 1,400 mm (55 in) to 2,250 mm (89 in) per year. The Ozama River
35-736: The Loma Siete Cabezas mountain in the Sierra de Yamasá mountain range, close to the town of Villa Altagracia . In 1498, Bartolome Colon had a fort built on the Ozama River delta, which would later become the first permanent European settlement in the New World ( Santo Domingo ). The estuary at that time, "teemed with fish and where the Indians raised cassava and yams," according to Floyd. The river flows 148 kilometers (92 mi) before emptying into
42-596: The Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional . Plans for local government separate from the National District were first floated in the 1970s. Congress considered a bill in 1984 that would have created the province of Santo Domingo Oriental, which was rejected on grounds that the creation of a new province would be unconstitutional. Santo Domingo Este has a variety of shopping centers, some of them among
49-699: The largest in the country, such as Mega Centro and Coral Mall. There are also commercial districts in the Venezuela Avenue and St. Vincent de Paul areas, which feature active nightlife and restaurants. The municipality also includes the Villa Panamericana, a housing complex built for the athletes of the 2003 Pan American Games . Santo Domingo Este has three duty-free zones. Hainamosa is home to 11 businesses and 3,000 employees; San Isidro houses 26 businesses and 7,470 employees; and Los Mina has just one business and 6,000 employees. The New Isabela Industrial Park
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