Interesting facts and Things to do

Discovered by Christopher Columbus on 1492, the Dominican Republic was the first new world colony settled by Spain. Formed by the peaks of two undersea mountains which come from Jamaica and Cuba, the Hispaniola is the second biggest island in the West Indies. The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island with an area of 48,442 square kilometers, about 18,000 square miles. It is larger than the Bahamas, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, all the Virgin Islands, and the entire French West Indies put together. It is slightly larger than the Netherlands, about the size of the state of Maryland. The country’s highest point is the Pico Duarte, the tallest mountain in the Caribbean at 10,414 feet above sea level. The country’s lowest point is the Enriquillo Lake, the lowest in the Caribbean at 148 feet below sea level.  It has a population of approximately 8.7 million people.

About Boca Chica

Boca Chica beach is a reef-protected beach of tranquil blue waters and
powder-white sand. People walk a 100 yards from the shore into glassy waters and still be only waist deep with nothing but soft clean sand underfoot.

It's the perfect beach for small children because there are no waves or deep waters. Boca Chica can be very crowded on Sundays when city dwellers
make the 45 minutes commute to the beach, returning home at dusk.

The rest of the week, the beach, sand and sun are for the tourists.

The Colonial Zone: the first street of the new world “Calle Las Damas”; the Ozama fortress the oldest in the Américas; the first cathedral in the new world (Cathedral Basílica Santa María La Menor); the Museum of Las Casas Reales (The Royal Houses); the Alcázar de Colón (Columbus’s Castle); the Independence Park; the Pedestrian

Street El Conde; the famous indoor craft market El Mercado Modelo located on the Mella Street.

Columbus’s lighthouse (Faro a Colón).