{"id":1029,"date":"2007-02-02T17:27:21","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2018-05-09T02:48:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T02:48:06","slug":"simbolos-nacionales","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/republica-dominicana\/simbolos-nacionales\/","title":{"rendered":"National Symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"

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National Flower<\/b><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The\u00a0Bayah\u00edbe\u00a0Rose\u00a0(Pereskia<\/i>\u00a0<\/i>quisqueyana<\/i>),\u00a0exotic and in danger of extinction, is the national flower of the Dominican\u00a0Repubic. The rose is a rare cactus that has\u00a0leafs\u00a0and a beautiful flower. It can be seen in the National Botanical garden in Santo Domingo.<\/p>\n

Did you know<\/b>?\u00a0<\/b>The Mahogany flower was declared the National Flower on July 16, 1957, by decree 2944, issued by the H\u00e9ctor\u00a0Bienvenido\u00a0Trujillo Molina government. The flower is from the mahogany tree,\u00a0Swietenia\u00a0mahogani, considered to be native, and one of the most prized in the world for the quality of its wood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nNational Stones\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The L<\/b>arimar.<\/b>\u00a0Is a rare variety of stone or semiprecious rock which was declared a national stone in 2011.\u00a0Its coloration varies from\u00a0white, clear blue, greenish blue and dark blue. Although it was found for the first time in 1916, the year 1994 was\u00a0when Dominican Miguel M\u00e9ndez and\u00a0Norman\u00a0Rilling,\u00a0a volunteer from the Peace Corps, \u201crediscovered\u201d the stone on a coastal beach in\u00a0Barahona.\u00a0It is said that the stone received its current name from the daughter of\u00a0M\u00e9ndez\u00a0whose name was\u00a0Larissa\u00a0and for the color of the\u00a0mar<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0Dominicans\u00a0use the beauty and rarity of the larimar in jewelry and art which they sell at hundreds of gift-shops to tourists and locals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Amber.\u00a0<\/b>This plant resin converted into rock comes from thousand year old trees and narrow tunnels, and is named amber. The petrified bits that preserve fossilized insects abound in the\u00a0Cibao\u00a0area, in the island’s central region.\u00a0Scientists that search for the quality of amber deposits in the Middle East, Australia, Canada, China, Mexico and the Dominican Republic grant greater value to the Dominican gems, due to their fossil preservation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A 30 million year old gecko, a 20 million year old mosquito or a species that ceased to exist on the planet several million years ago still exhibit their forms as small museum pieces in an iridescent gem. The majority of the rocks extracted and sold are of yellow and brown colors. A few reddish gems have been found. Also, thanks to local nature, there are some with blue undertones, but they are extremely scarce and therefore very valuable. They have only been found in the\u00a0Cibao\u00a0region, while in the East, many pieces have an almost white hue.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know?<\/b>\u00a0The Dominican\u00a0Direcci\u00f3n\u00a0General de\u00a0Miner\u00eda\u00a0established that the amber deposits are found in sedimentary drainage basins formed by the fusion of shale and arsenics from the\u00a0Yanigua\u00a0and Puerto Plata formations from the Eocene-Miocene period.\u00a0Other deposits are located and extracted in the Cordillera\u00a0Septentrional, province of Santiago, in the north, in the communities of Los Cacaos and Palo Alto; in the Cordillera Oriental, in the municipality of El Valle of the\u00a0Hato\u00a0Mayor province, in the east of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Did you know<\/b>?\u00a0<\/b>Extraction is carried out by hand, using underground mining techniques (shafts and tunnels). The miners that extract the mineral group themselves into cooperatives. The current national production average is approximately 300 pounds per month.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Find out more about this at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.ambermuseum.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


\nNational Bird<\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Palm Chat, from the\u00a0Dulidae\u00a0family,\u00a0is endemic to Hispaniola and is not related to other species. It lives in flocks and raises its young in a large nest\u00a0that has various compartments. fruits, flowers and small insects serve as its food.\u00a0Its size, on average, is 20 centimeters in length. Its body is olive colored, while its wings tend to be green. Its underbelly is the color of caf\u00e9 latte or a pale yellow, with brown stripes. The head has a darker color and the beak is\u00a0strong. Both sexes are similar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Palm Chat lives in open fields, but prefers palms, in low elevations. To make its nest, it gathers dry twigs, which it places in the top of a palm or other tree. The bed can reach up to two meters wide by one meter high. Various couples undertake the large construction job, which features tunnels and multiple nests.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Its name,\u00a0Dulus\u00a0dominicus, is attributed to Carlos\u00a0Linnacus, who discovered it in 1766.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The American Union of\u00a0Orinthology\u00a0includes the Palm Chat in the\u00a0Dulidae\u00a0family on its list of birds of the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Flower The\u00a0Bayah\u00edbe\u00a0Rose\u00a0(Pereskia\u00a0quisqueyana),\u00a0exotic and in danger of extinction, is the national flower of the Dominican\u00a0Repubic. The rose is a rare cactus that has\u00a0leafs\u00a0and a beautiful flower. It can be seen in the National Botanical garden in Santo Domingo. Did you know?\u00a0The Mahogany flower was declared the National Flower on July 16, 1957, by decree 2944, … Continue reading “National Symbols”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1520,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1029","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10290,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1029\/revisions\/10290"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}