27 Facts About Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo, once known as Santo Domingo de Guzman and Ciudad Trujillo, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.

Santo Domingo was called Ciudad Trujillo, from 1936 to 1961, after the Dominican Republic's dictator, Rafael Trujillo, named the capital after himself.

Santo Domingo is the cultural, financial, political, commercial and industrial center of the Dominican Republic, with the vast majority of the country's most important industries being located within the city.

Santo Domingo came to be known as the "Gateway to the Caribbean" and the chief town in Hispaniola from then on.

In 1821, Santo Domingo became the capital of an independent nation called the Republic of Spanish Haiti after the Criollo bourgeois within the country, led by Jose Nunez de Caceres, overthrew the Spanish crown.

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On 27 February 1844 Santo Domingo was again the capital of a free nation, when it gained its independence from Haiti, led by Dominican nationalist Juan Pablo Duarte.

Santo Domingo was overthrown seven months later, resulting in a civil war in the capital.

City proper of Santo Domingo is subdivided into incorporated areas called sectores which could be considered as small urban towns.

Demographics of Santo Domingo are similar to other metropolitan areas of the country, except that the population of immigrants is larger in the city due to abundant jobs and economic dynamism compared to other provinces.

Santo Domingo, like most of the country, is made up of native-born Dominican mulattos, though there are large numbers of Afro-Dominicans and Euro-Dominicans, as well as a large immigrant community.

The city of Santo Domingo has a significant community of Asians, Arabs, and Europeans are present in the city.

Santo Domingo is considered one of the epicenters of the growing Dominican middle-class.

Santo Domingo is the center of the national government of the Dominican Republic.

Santo Domingo has a thriving middle class contrasting with the significant pockets of poverty that remain as challenges for the future.

Santo Domingo has areas of high development, among them Serralles, Naco, Arroyo Hondo, Piantini, Urb Fernandez, Ens.

Santo Domingo is the location of numerous museums, many of which are located in the Zona Colonial district.

Santo Domingo holds the nation's highest percentage of residents with a higher education degree.

Santo Domingo has an underground and elevated rapid transit metro system.

The Santo Domingo Metro is part of a major "National Master Plan" to improve transportation in the city as well as the rest of the nation.

In 2018, a 5-kilometer Teleferico de Santo Domingo was opened to provide service to the poorest areas in the east and north of the metropolitan area, and serve as a feeder for the metro.

Santo Domingo is the terminus for four of the five national highways.

The Santo Domingo Metro is the highest quality in the region of the Caribbean and Central America.

Avenida Nicolas de Ovando y Caceres: Is located on the northern part of Santo Domingo starting at the roundabout Cristo Rey sector and corner with Ortega y Gasset, Maximo Gomez, Arbert Duarte and Thomas avenues, among others; culminating in the sector of Simon Bolivar.

Santo Domingo is home to two of the six teams in the Dominican Professional Baseball League.

Santo Domingo has the greatest number of television signals in the country, followed by Santiago.

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In Santo Domingo there are 100 different stations in AM frequency and 44 in FM frequency.

Santo Domingo has four sister cities designated by Sister Cities International:.