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unusual facts about Cabo Rojo, Dominican Republic



1946 Dominican Republic earthquake

The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake occurred on August 4, 1946 at 17:51 UTC near Samaná, Dominican Republic.

Ana Yorkira Binet

Ana Yorkira Binet Stephens (born February 9, 1992 in Sánchez, Samaná) is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic.

Ángel Berroa

Ángel Maria Berroa Selmo (born January 27, 1978) is a Dominican professional baseball infielder with the Leones de Yucatán of the Mexican League.

Consuelo Field

Consuelo Airport is located in the municipality of Consuelo, in the San Pedro de Macorís province of the Dominican Republic.

Daler-Rowney

The process of manufacturing is divided into 3 different sites: the colours are produced at the headquarters, in Bracknell; the brushes are manufactured in La Romana, Dominican Republic; and all paper products are transformed in Wareham, United Kingdom.

Dalia Fernández

Fernández competed as the representative of Santiago, one of 36 finalists in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Dominican Republic 2011, broadcast live from Santo Domingo on March 8, 2011, where she became the eventual winner of the title, gaining the right to represent the Dominican Republic in Miss Universe 2011.

Dominican Spanish

Dominican Spanish is Spanish as spoken in the Dominican Republic, a Caribbean country, and throughout the Dominican diaspora, which is found mostly in the United States, chiefly in New York City, Boston, and Miami.

Donald L. Tucker Civic Center

The arena was named the Donald L. Tucker Civic Center in 1977 in honor of Donald L. Tucker, Esq., a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and Special Ambassador for the United States to the Dominican Republic.

Elio Rojas

Elio Enai Rojas (born September 25, 1982, in Villa Riva, Duarte, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican Republican professional boxer.

Eugenio María de Hostos Airport

Although the airport has always been a turbo-prop aircraft airport, Pan Am announced, in 2002, intentions to install jet flights between Mayagüez and Las Américas International Airport in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with Boeing 727s.

Fabio Castro

Fabio Enrique Castro (born January 20, 1985 in Monte Christi, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher, who is with the Tigres de Quintana Roo in the Mexican League.

Gabriel Mercedes

Yulis Gabriel Mercedes Reyes (born November 12, 1979 in Monte Plata, Monte Plata) is a Dominican taekwondo practitioner and Olympic medalist.

Geisha Montes

She later entered Miss Mundo Dominicana 2008 and won, gaining the right to represent the Dominican Republic at Miss World.

Haina Occidental Port

The Haina Occidental Port is located in the Haina River, Haina, Dominican Republic.

Hilma Contreras

Hilma Contreras Castillo (December 8, 1913 - January 15, 2006) was a Dominican writer, born in San Francisco de Macorís.

Jack Michael Morillo

Jack Michael Morillo (born 26 October 1986) is a Dominican footballer who plays as a forward.

Jesús Alou

Jesús María Rojas Alou (born March 24, 1942 in Bajos de Haina, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.

John H. Russell, Jr.

Early in March 1917, he assumed command of the 3rd Regiment, with headquarters in Santo Domingo City, Dominican Republic, and within a short period of time he was detached and ordered to command the 4th Regiment of Marines with headquarters at Santiago de los Caballeros, where he remained until October 1917, when he was detached and ordered to the Republic of Haiti to command the Marine Brigade serving in that country.

Jovanny Rosario

Jovanny (De Los Santos) Rosario (born April 12, 1985 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic is an outfielder for the Olmecas de Tabasco in the Mexican League.

Julio Ramírez

Julio Cesar Ramírez (born 10 August 1977 in San Juan de la Maguana, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball center fielder.

Kaplan International Colleges

KIC also offers short, medium and long-term residential foreign language courses in China, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Russia and Spain through partner schools.

Kerbi Rodríguez

(born 10 December 1985 in Esperanza) is a Dominican international football striker playing for Moca FC in the Dominican first division.

Los Favoritos

At the same day, "Los Favoritos", were presented at Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico in the reception of Miss Puerto Rico Universe 2009, Mayra Matos.

Nuris Arias

Nuris Arias Doñé (born May 20, 1973 in San Cristobal) is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the gold medal with the women's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in her home town Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Oscar de la Renta

De la Renta was born Óscar Arístides Ortiz de la Renta Fiallo in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother, María Antonia Fiallo, and a Puerto Rican father, Óscar Avelino de la Renta.

Pedro Antonio Núñez

Pedro Antonio Núñez Mejía (born September 5, 1989 in Hato Mayor del Rey) is a Dominican footballer who plays as a forward.

Port of Cabo Rojo

Port of Cabo Rojo or Cabo Rojo Port is located in Cabo Rojo, Pedernales, Dominican Republic.

Ramon Henderson

Ramon Gaspar Henderson (born August 18, 1963 in Monción, Dominican Republic) was the bullpen coach Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1998-2008.

Rara

The genre was imported to the Dominican Republic and is now an integral part of the Afro-Dominican music scene, where it is known colloquially as gagá.

Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2007 Pan American Games

The official bid was submitted in August 2001 during the XXXIX Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) General Assembly held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Robert C. Lawson

There are now 582 churches world-wide, including congregations in West Africa, Mexico, Canada, the British West Indies, the Dominican Republic, England, Haiti, and the Philippines.

Robert E. Michler

He has received numerous honors including “Person of the Week” by Peter Jennings of ABC World News Tonight, the Pace Humanitarian Award, and “The Order of Christopher Columbus” by Hipólito Mejía, President of the Dominican Republic.

Robinson Tejeda

Robinson Garcia Tejeda (born March 24, 1982, in Baní, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher with the Rojos del Águila de Veracruz.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

Timothy P. Broglio, Titular Archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the Dominican Republic (1977–2001) Appointed Archbishop for the Military Services of the United States, 2008.

Ronald K. McMullen

Other overseas assignments include serving as Deputy Principal Officer in Cape Town, South Africa; Economic Officer in Libreville, Gabon; Political Officer in Colombo, Sri Lanka; and Vice Consul in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Sabana de la Mar Airport

Sabana de la Mar National Airport is located in Sabana de la Mar, Hato Mayor, northeast Dominican Republic, and is only used for emergency landings and private flights.

Santo Domingo Greenbelt

The Santo Domingo greenbelt (Spanish: Cinturon Verde de Santo Domingo) is a greenbelt project that surrounds the outer boundaries of the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo de Guzman (Distrito Nacional).

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park's second age began with a wave of immigration from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador, as well as other Latin American countries.

Sylvana Gómez

Sylvana Anali Rivera Gómez is a female beach volleyball player from Guatemala, who played with María Orellana in the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

Tony Eusebio

Raul Antonio Bare Eusebio (born April 27, 1967 in San José de los Llanos, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Houston Astros.

Trevor Peters

He made his debut for the British Virgin Islands in an October 2010 17–0 defeat to the Dominican Republic.

Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar

On January 2011, Diplomatic cables from 2005 and 2006 released by Wikileaks in the United States diplomatic cables leak, revealed that Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernández suspected Bacellar had been assassinated by a group of contras led by Guy Philippe, a former soldier and police chief and an Haitian anti-Aristide "rebel" leader that had been armed by the USA.

Vicente Noble

It is bordered on the north by Padre Las Casas municipality, Azua Province and Vallejuelo in San Juan Province; to the east by the Azua de Compostela municipality; to the south by the Jaquimeyes section in Barahona Province; and to the west by Tamayo municipality, Neiba municipality, and the Yaque del Sur River that acts as a limit for both these municipalities.

Villa Los Almácigos

In the mountains around La Peonia, it is possible to see the Hispaniolan solenodon and Hutia, rare animals endemic to the Dominican Republic.

Walter Nicks

Forming a small company, "El Ballet Negro de Walter Nicks," in Mexico, he performed at the Insurgentes Theatre in Mexico City in a production starring Cantinflas; at the Sans Souci in Havana; on television in the Dominican Republic, and at the Condado Beach Hotel in San Juan.

Yelena Produnova

As of July, 2013, only other two female gymnasts successfully performed this vault in competition, Dominican Yamilet Peña and Egyptian Fadwa Mahmoud.

Yudelka Bonilla

Yudelka Bonilla (born September 19, 1976 in Mao) is a female volleyball and beach volleyball player from Dominican Republic, who won the bronze medal in the women's beach team competition at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, El Salvador, partnering Iris Santos.


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