Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo is the capital and largest city inside the Dominican Republic and the biggest metropolitan place within the Caribbean by population. In 2010, its populace turned into counted as 965,040, rising to two,908,607 while its surrounding metropolitan location was covered. The city is coterminous with the limits of the Distrito Nacional itself bordered on 3 aspects through Santo Domingo Province. Founded by using Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, at the east bank of the Ozama River and then moved by means of Nicolás de Ovando in 1502 to the west financial institution of the river, the metropolis is the oldest constantly inhabited

European agreement within the Americas, and turned into the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule within the New World. Santo Domingo is the web site of the primary college, cathedral, fort, monastery, and castle within the New World. The town's harbor at the mouth of the Ozama River contains the biggest vessels, and the port handles both heavy passenger and freight visitors. Temperatures are excessive 12 months spherical, with cooler breezes in the iciness time.