{"id":1520,"date":"2007-02-02T17:32:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dominicana-online.org\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2018-05-17T20:17:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:17:24","slug":"republica-dominicana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/republica-dominicana\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic is a wonderful\u00a0country, with cultural wealth and enviable natural diversity.\u00a0A wide spectrum of nuanced colors and flavors characterize the great Dominican Republic, a Caribbean paradise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/rep-dom-las-antillas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/rep-dom-las-antillas-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/rep-dom-las-antillas-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/02\/rep-dom-las-antillas.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The country\u2019s location in the Antilles and its territorial\u00a0size\u00a0of\u00a048,198\u00a0square kilometers, form a geographic environment which highlights its tropical character.\u00a0Elevations\u00a0and water basins,\u00a0forests and wetlands, shape a landscape in which contrasts are a constant that\u00a0enriches the\u00a0country\u2019s\u00a0natural heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The DR enjoys an average annual temperature of\u00a025 \u00b0 C (77 \u00b0 F),\u00a0which defines it as a moderate tropical climate.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican Republic\u2019s population, which is over 10 million inhabitants (2013), is governed by a representative democracy in which power is divided among three independent branches: the Executive, Legislative and Judicial.<\/p>\n<p>Dominicans speak Spanish, practice Catholicism as\u00a0the official majority religion\u00a0and refer to their currency as the Dominican peso.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to explore\u00a0DominicanaOnline.org\u00a0to virtually become better\u00a0acquainted\u00a0with the Dominican Republic\u00a0and to purchase\u00a0ALL THINGS DOMINICAN | Lo\u00a0Dominicano,\u00a0a\u00a0publication printed by\u00a0GFDD\/Funglode,\u00a0to appreciate,\u00a0through your own eyes,\u00a0the Dominican Republic\u2019s beauty, devotion, joy, color, and its great diversity and natural and cultural wealth.\u00a0 More information\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/9945590243\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Republic is a wonderful\u00a0country, with cultural wealth and enviable natural diversity.\u00a0A wide spectrum of nuanced colors and flavors characterize the great Dominican Republic, a Caribbean paradise. The country\u2019s location in the Antilles and its territorial\u00a0size\u00a0of\u00a048,198\u00a0square kilometers, form a geographic environment which highlights its tropical character.\u00a0Elevations\u00a0and water basins,\u00a0forests and wetlands, shape a landscape in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/republica-dominicana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Dominican Republic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1520","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1520"}],"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=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1520\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}