Geography: The Dominican Republic

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Geography
The Dominican Republic is on the Hispaniola Island which in the Caribbean. This country is in the eastern two-thirds of the island and in the western is Haiti. The weather here is tropical maritime but have a seasonal variation in rainfall which the temperature is not changing much here because of the tropical zone. In this island, the highest point is Duarte Peak at 10,417 ft. or 3,175 m. They are coastline and you can find nickel, bauxite, gold and silver here.

History
Firstly, Spaniards was established a colony at Santo Domingo in 1496 on the Hispaniola island then after few years, they start to bring African slaves to here. In 1795, Spain gives the western part of Hispaniola to France then it becomes the Republic of Haiti on

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