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Cotubanamá National Park
Cotubanamá National Park (formerly ''Parque Nacional del Este'') is located on the lower southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, spanning across the provinces of La Altagracia Province, La Altagracia and La Romana Province, Dominican Republic, La Romana with an area of 791.9 sq. kilometers which includes a range of dense humid and dry subtropical forests, mangroves, beaches, and caves. ''East National Park'' was officially declared a National Park and Reserve in 1975 by Decree No. 1311, and subsequently inducted into the environmental and Protected Area Laws No. 64-00 and Law No. 202-04, after a study was conducted on the land which discovered the presence of over 539 plant species, more than 50 of which are endemic to the region. In 2014, the Dominican National Congress voted to change the park’s original name of Parque Nacional del Este, to Parque Nacional Cotubanamá in honor of the fallen Taíno, Taino Chief ''(Cacique)''. History Before the arrival of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ISS015-E-7767 - View Of Dominican Republic
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest modular space station currently in low Earth orbit. It is a multinational collaborative project involving five participating space agencies: NASA (United States), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), ESA (Europe), and CSA (Canada). The ownership and use of the space station is established by intergovernmental treaties and agreements. The station serves as a microgravity and space environment research laboratory in which scientific research is conducted in astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics, and other fields. The ISS is suited for testing the spacecraft systems and equipment required for possible future long-duration missions to the Moon and Mars. The ISS programme evolved from the Space Station ''Freedom'', a 1984 American proposal to construct a permanently crewed Earth-orbiting station, and the contemporaneous Soviet/Russian ''Mir-2'' proposal from 1976 with similar aims. The ISS is the ninth space station to be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
