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Dominican Republic GEOGRAPHY
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Figure 2. Topography and Drainage
The Dominican Republic is located on the island of
Hispaniola
(La Isla Española), which it shares with Haiti to the
west. The
388-kilometer border between the two was established in a
series
of treaties, the most recent of which was the 1936
Protocol of
Revision of the Frontier Treaty (Tratado Fronterizo) of
1929. The
country is shaped in the form of an irregular triangle.
The short
side of the triangle is 388 kilometers long, while the two
long
sides form 1,575 kilometers of coastline along the
Atlantic
Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Mona Passage. The total
area of
the country is approximately 48,442 square kilometers.
Although
it boasts the highest elevations in the Antilles, it also
has a
saltwater lake below sea level
(see Dominican Republic - fig. 2).
Data as of December 1989
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