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70 relations: Alto Velo Island, Americas, Artibonite River, Atlantic Ocean, Bauxite, Beata Island, Brackish water, Camú River, Capital city, Caribbean, Caribbean Sea, Catalina Island (Dominican Republic), Christopher Columbus, Cibao, CITES, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, Constanza, Dominican Republic, Continental margin, Convention on Biological Diversity, Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic, Deforestation, Diego de Ocampo, Dominican Republic, Drainage basin, Fresh water, Geographic coordinate system, Gold, Greater Antilles, Haiti, Hispaniola, Independencia Province, Jaragua National Park, Karst, La Altagracia Province, Lake Enriquillo, Law of the sea, List of countries and territories by land borders, London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, Maritime nation, MARPOL 73/78, Mona Passage, Montreal Protocol, Mountain, New Hampshire, Nickel, Oviedo, Dominican Republic, Ozama River, Pedernales, Dominican Republic, Pico Duarte, ..., Plain, Prairie, Puerto Rico, Rain shadow, Rivière Soliette, Salt lake, Santo Domingo, Saona Island, Silver, Taíno, Temperature, Tortuga (Haiti), Trade winds, Tropics, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Valley, Vermont, Yaque del Norte River, Yuna River. Expand index (20 more) »
Alto Velo Island
Alto Velo Island is a small uninhabited island south of the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea.
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Americas
The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.
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Artibonite River
The Artibonite River is a 320 km long river in Haiti.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Bauxite
Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content.
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Beata Island
Beata Island (Isla Beata) is a small island on the Caribbean Sea, located southwest from Cape Beata.
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Brackish water
Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.
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Camú River
The Camú River (Spanish: Río Camú) is long river located in the northern Dominican Republic.
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Capital city
A capital city (or simply capital) is the municipality exercising primary status in a country, state, province, or other administrative region, usually as its seat of government.
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Caribbean
The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea (Mar Caribe; Mer des Caraïbes; Caraïbische Zee) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Catalina Island (Dominican Republic)
Catalina Island or Isla Catalina is a tropical island located 1.5 miles from the mainland on the south-east corner of the Dominican Republic, near La Altagracia and La Romana.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (before 31 October 145120 May 1506) was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer.
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Cibao
The Cibao, usually referred as "El Cibao", is a region of the Dominican Republic located at the northern part of the country.
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CITES
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.
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Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) is a multilateral treaty that bans all nuclear explosions, for both civilian and military purposes, in all environments.
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Constanza, Dominican Republic
Constanza is a town and municipality in La Vega Province, Dominican Republic.
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Continental margin
The continental margin is one of the three major zones of the ocean floor, the other two being deep-ocean basins and mid-ocean ridges.
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Convention on Biological Diversity
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), known informally as the Biodiversity Convention, is a multilateral treaty.
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Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas
The Convention on Fishing and Conservation of Living Resources of the High Seas is an agreement that was designed to solve through international cooperation the problems involved in the conservation of living resources of the high seas, considering that because of the development of modern technology some of these resources are in danger of being overexploited.
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Cordillera Central, Dominican Republic
The Cordillera Central is the highest mountain range in the Dominican Republic and in all of the Caribbean region, running through the heart of the island of Hispaniola.
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Deforestation
Deforestation, clearance, or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use.
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Diego de Ocampo
The Diego de Ocampo is the highest point in the Cordillera Septentrional in the Santiago Province, Dominican Republic.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic (República Dominicana) is a sovereign state located in the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region.
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Drainage basin
A drainage basin is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Geographic coordinate system
A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
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Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea: Cuba, Hispaniola (containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands.
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Haiti
Haiti (Haïti; Ayiti), officially the Republic of Haiti and formerly called Hayti, is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (Spanish: La Española; Latin and French: Hispaniola; Haitian Creole: Ispayola; Taíno: Haiti) is an island in the Caribbean island group, the Greater Antilles.
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Independencia Province
Independencia is a province of the Dominican Republic, located in the west, on the border with Haiti.
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Jaragua National Park
Jaragua National Park (Parque Nacional Jaragua) is a national park of the Dominican Republic.
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Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
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La Altagracia Province
La Altagracia is the easternmost province of the Dominican Republic.
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Lake Enriquillo
Lake Enriquillo (Lago Enriquillo) is a hypersaline lake in the Dominican Republic located in the southwestern region of the country.
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Law of the sea
Law of the Sea is a body of international law that concerns the principles and rules by which public entities, especially states, interact in maritime matters, including navigational rights, sea mineral rights, and coastal waters jurisdiction.
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List of countries and territories by land borders
This is a list of countries and territories by land borders.
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London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter
The Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter 1972, commonly called the "London Convention" or "LC '72" and also abbreviated as Marine Dumping, is an agreement to control pollution of the sea by dumping and to encourage regional agreements supplementary to the Convention.
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Maritime nation
A maritime nation is any nation which borders the sea and is dependent on its use for majority of the following state activities: commerce and transport, war, to define a territorial boundary, or for any maritime activity (activities using the sea to convey or produce an end result).
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MARPOL 73/78
The International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, 1973 as modified by the Protocol of 1978 (MARPOL 73/78, MARPOL is short for marine pollution and 73/78 short for the years 1973 and 1978) is one of the most important international marine environmental conventions.
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Mona Passage
The Mona Passage (Canal de la Mona) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.
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Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (a protocol to the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer) is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.
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Mountain
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
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New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Nickel
Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.
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Oviedo, Dominican Republic
Oviedo is a city and municipality in the Pedernales province of the Dominican Republic.
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Ozama River
The Ozama River in the Dominican Republic rises in the Loma Siete Cabezas in the Sierra de Yamasá, close to Villa Altagracia.
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Pedernales, Dominican Republic
The Dominican city of Pedernales is the capital of the Pedernales Province, in the Dominican Republic.
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Pico Duarte
Pico Duarte is the highest peak in the Dominican Republic, and all the Caribbean islands.
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Plain
In geography, a plain is a flat, sweeping landmass that generally does not change much in elevation.
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Prairie
Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Rain shadow
A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area (away from the wind).
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Rivière Soliette
The Rivière Soliette (in Haiti) or Arroyo Blanco (in the Dominican Republic) is a river in the southwest of the Dominican Republic.
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Salt lake
A salt lake or saline lake is a landlocked body of water that has a concentration of salts (typically sodium chloride) and other dissolved minerals significantly higher than most lakes (often defined as at least three grams of salt per litre).
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic"), officially Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population.
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Saona Island
Saona Island (Isla Saona) is a tropical island located a short distance from the mainland on the south-east tip of the Dominican Republic.
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Silver
Silver is a chemical element with symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European ''h₂erǵ'': "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47.
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Taíno
The Taíno people are one of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean.
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Temperature
Temperature is a physical quantity expressing hot and cold.
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Tortuga (Haiti)
Tortuga (or Tortuga Island) (Île de la Tortue,; Latòti; Isla Tortuga,, Turtle Island) is a Caribbean island that forms part of Haiti, off the northwest coast of Hispaniola.
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Trade winds
The trade winds are the prevailing pattern of easterly surface winds found in the tropics, within the lower portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in the lower section of the troposphere near the Earth's equator.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.
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United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty adopted on 9 May 1992 and opened for signature at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.
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Valley
A valley is a low area between hills or mountains often with a river running through it.
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Vermont
Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Yaque del Norte River
The Yaque Del Norte River is the longest river in the Dominican Republic.
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Yuna River
The Yuna River (Spanish: Río Yuna) is the second longest river in the Dominican Republic at in length.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_the_Dominican_Republic
