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Nizao
Nizao is a city in the province of Peravia in the Dominican Republic. General information Nizao is a city in the Dominican Republic and capital of the Nizao Municipality. It is the second large municipality of the Peravia Province and is located in southeastern corner of this province, in the angle formed by the estuary of the Nizao River and the Caribbean Sea coast. It is well known for being the city of the luxury cars in the country and they are all owned by "carajitos firmao" as the local people call young professional athletes. The Municipality Nizao was founded in the 16th century when Diego, Christopher Columbus' firstborn son, built a sugar mill and plantation along Nizao River. The Nizao Municipality is divided into two municipal districts, Santana and Pizarrete, and one municipal section, Don Gregorio. Nizao was elevated to the category of Municipal District on January 1, 1945 and to Municipality in 1989. As a municipality, Nizao elected its authorities (Mayor an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glovis Reyes Aglon
Lic. Glovis Reyes Aglón is the current Mayor of the city of Nizao, Dominican Republic, elected on the municipal elections celebrated on May 16, 2010. Early life and education Glovis Reyes was born in Don Gregorio, the son of Agapito Reyes Encarnación (Apicito), a pharmacy owner in Santo Domingo originally from Juan Barón Palenque, San Cristóbal, and Miriam Aglón Nova, a grocery owner from Don Gregorio, in 1958. Reyes studied at Liceo Francisco Gregorio Billini in Baní and at the Instituto Politécnico Loyola, in San Cristobal. After graduating from High school, Reyes went to Otto Rivera School to become a Radio announcer. He graduate from that school and worked as a radio host in San Cristobal, and at the same time started attending the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo Faculty of Humanities Department of Psychology, where he later graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology. Political activism Glovis Reyes came to Don Gregorio in 1984 to organize the Municip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peravia
Peravia () is a province in the southern region of the Dominican Republic. Before January 1, 2002 it was included in what is the new San José de Ocoa province, and published statistics and maps generally relate it to the old, larger, Peravia. It is named after the Peravia Valley. Along the Azua Province, Peravia is characterized by its dry climate and its dunes that surround the coast. One popular attraction is the Salinas beach, which recently has grown to be a popular tourist destination with a developed town that has shops and hotels. Municipalities and municipal districts The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following municipalities (''municipios'') and municipal districts (''distrito municipal'' - D.M.) within them: * Baní **Catalina (D.M.) ** El Carretón (D.M.) ** El Limonal (D.M.) ** Paya (D.M.) ** Villa Fundación (D.M.) * Matanzas ** Sabana Buey (D.M.) **Villa Sombrero (D.M.) *Nizao ** Pizarrete (D.M.) ** Santana (D.M.) The following is a sortab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peravia Province
Peravia () is a Provinces of the Dominican Republic, province in the southern region of the Dominican Republic. Before January 1, 2002 it was included in what is the new San José de Ocoa (province), San José de Ocoa province, and published statistics and maps generally relate it to the old, larger, Peravia. It is named after the Peravia Valley. Along the Azua Province, Peravia is characterized by its dry climate and its dunes that surround the coast. One popular attraction is the Salinas beach, which recently has grown to be a popular tourist destination with a developed town that has shops and hotels. Municipalities and municipal districts The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following Municipalities of the Dominican Republic, municipalities (''municipios'') and municipal districts (''distrito municipal'' - D.M.) within them: *Baní **Catalina, Dominican Republic, Catalina (D.M.) **El Carretón (D.M.) **El Limonal (D.M.) **Paya, Dominican Republic, Paya ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Gregorio (town)
Don Gregorio is a town in Nizao County, located in the southeastern corner of Dominican Republic, at . It is the second most populated town in the Nizao County of the Peravia Province, in the estuary of the Nizao River. Don Gregorio was elevated to municipal section on January 1, 1945, when Nizao was elevated from Municipal District to the category of County by the Dominican Congress. Don Gregorio is an agricultural town rich in cultivable lands and a huge producer of baseball players. Wilton Guerrero, Jesus Sánchez, and Vladimir Guerrero are dongregorienses who have played in Major League Baseball in the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territori .... Don Gregorio is also the home of the first congressman representing Nizao County on the Dominican Republic Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nizao River
The Nizao River is one of the most important rivers in the Dominican Republic. Three hydroelectric power/ electrical plants have been built along its path, the largest at Jiguey Dam. It is dried because of decade of aggregate extraction. Luis Carvajal, a top Dominican ecologist, estimated a cost of RD$350M per km to recover the river. History On 14 April 1655 Robert Venables landed with a contingent of the English New Model Army at the mouth of the Nizao River in preparation for a land attack on Santo Domingo , total_type = Total , population_density_km2 = auto , timezone = AST (UTC −4) , area_code_type = Area codes , area_code = 809, 829, 849 , postal_code_type = Postal codes , postal_code = 10100–10699 ( Distrito Nacional) , webs .... Vice-Admiral William Goodsonn was also landed with an auxiliary "sea regiment", composed of sailors. Their superior discipline enabled them to save the other soldiers from catastrophe during two Spanish ambushes. After tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of The Dominican Republic
The municipalities of the Dominican Republic are, after the regions and the provinces, the third level of the political and administrative division of the Dominican Republic. The division of provinces into municipalities (''municipios'') is established in the Constitution and further regulated by Law 5220 on the Territorial Division of the Dominican Republic. It was enacted in 1959 and has been frequently amended to create new provinces, municipalities and lower-level administrative units. Municipalities may be further divided into ''secciones'' (literally: sections) and ''parajes'' (literally: places or neighborhoods). Municipal districts (''distritos municipales'') may be formed in the case of municipalities with several urban centres. Law 176-07 replaced ''Law Nº 3455 de Organización Municipal'' from January, 29, 1953; that had long served as the basis for municipal administration, see The provinces as the second level of political and administrative division contain at lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baní
Baní is a capital town of the Peravia Province, Dominican Republic. It is the commercial and manufacturing center in the southern region of Valdesia. The town is located 65 km south of the capital city Santo Domingo. Baní is the headquarters of the Southcentral General Directorate of the National Police, the Central Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Agriculture and the South Regional Directorate of the General Directorate of Traffic Safety and Land Transport (DIGESETT). Overview The city of Bani is the capital of the Peravia province; its residents also know it as the home of poets. The province's population is 169,865 people, with 61,864 living in the Bani metro area. This is a tightly knit community with families and neighborhoods dating back several centuries. Bani is a Taino word meaning "abundant water." The area was named after an important Taino leader of the Maguana people. He was said to be one of Caonabo's closest allies. But, it wasn't until 1764 when a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Consortium
A consortium (plural: consortia) is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal. is a Latin word meaning "partnership", "association" or "society", and derives from ("shared in property"), itself from ("together") and ("fate"). Examples Educational The Big Ten Academic Alliance in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic U.S., Claremont Colleges consortium in Southern California, Five College Consortium in Massachusetts, and Consórcio Nacional Honda are among the oldest and most successful higher education consortia in the World. The Big Ten Academic Alliance, formerly known as the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, includes the members of the Big Ten athletic conference. The participants in Five Colleges, Inc. are: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artificial Lake
A reservoir (; from French ''réservoir'' ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam. Such a dam may be either artificial, built to store fresh water or it may be a natural formation. Reservoirs can be created in a number of ways, including controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of water, interrupting a watercourse to form an embayment within it, through excavation, or building any number of retaining walls or levees. In other contexts, "reservoirs" may refer to storage spaces for various fluids; they may hold liquids or gasses, including hydrocarbons. ''Tank reservoirs'' store these in ground-level, elevated, or buried tanks. Tank reservoirs for water are also called cisterns. Most underground reservoirs are used to store liquids, principally either water or petroleum. Types Dammed valleys Dammed reservoirs are artificial lakes created and controlled by a dam constructed across a valley, and rely on the natural topography to provide most of the basin of the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominican Liberation Party
The Dominican Liberation Party (Spanish: Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, referred to here by its Spanish acronym, the PLD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Founded in 1973 by former president Juan Bosch, the party, along with the Dominican Revolutionary Party (referred to here by its Spanish acronym, the PRD), and Social Christian Reformist Party, has dominated politics in the country since the establishment of democracy in the early 1960s. The PLD have won several elections since the late 1990s and had held control over much of the government until 2020, when the Modern Revolutionary Party (referred to here by its Spanish acronym, the PRM) won several governmental seats as well as the Presidency with the election of Luis Abinader as President. The PLD party's logo is a yellow five-pointed star on a purple background. Overview The PLD has been a major player in the Dominican political landscape for many years. Since its founding in 1973, it has won 5 of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chili Pepper
Chili peppers (also chile, chile pepper, chilli pepper, or chilli), from Nahuatl '' chīlli'' (), are varieties of the berry-fruit of plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency. Chili peppers are widely used in many cuisines as a spice to add "heat" to dishes. Capsaicin and related compounds known as capsaicinoids are the substances giving chili peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically. While ''chili peppers'' are (to varying degrees) pungent or "spicy", there are other varieties of capsicum such as bell peppers (UK: peppers) which generally provide additional sweetness and flavor to a meal rather than “heat.” Chili peppers are believed to have originated somewhere in Central or South America. and were first cultivated in Mexico. After the Columbian Exchange, many cultivars of chili pepper spread around the world, used for both food and traditional medicine. This led to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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