DR-13 is a highway in the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares with ...

. It connects

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 ...

to the province of

Monte Plata Monte Plata is a town and municipality (''municipio'') and the capital of the Monte Plata province in the Dominican Republic. It includes the municipal districts (''distritos municipal'') of Boyá, Chirino, and Don Juan Don Juan (), also ...

and

Monseñor Nouel Adolfo Alejandro Nouel y Bobadilla (12 December 1862, Santo Domingo – 26 June 1937) was an archbishop, educator and interim president of the Dominican Republic. Early life and education Nouel was born to Carlos Rafael Nouel y Pierret, a ...

. Its two lanes run mostly through metropolitan

and it connects the

Distrito Nacional The Distrito Nacional (; D.N.) is a subdivision of the Dominican Republic enclosing the capital Santo Domingo. It is not in any of the provinces, but in practice, it acts as a province on its own. Before October 16, 2001, the Distrito Nacional was ...

with

Santo Domingo Norte Santo Domingo Norte is a municipality of the Santo Domingo Province in the Dominican Republic. There is one municipal district (''distrito municipal'') within the municipality: La Victoria. Overview Santo Domingo Norte was created as a municipal ...

and

Villa Mella Villa Mella (), or San Felipe de Villa Mella, is a municipality in Santo Domingo Norte, Dominican Republic. Villa Mella is located north of the Isabela River, about 6 miles (or 10 kilometers) to the north of the center of Santo Domingo, and is con ...

. DR-13 is the only highway in Santo Domingo that crosses

Greater Santo Domingo Greater Santo Domingo ( es, Gran Santo Domingo) is a term commonly used referring to the metropolitan area of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. This may be the Santo Domingo province together with the Distrito Nacional. Before 2001 the Dis ...

in its entirety. It runs from the coast up to Villa Mella where the highway is then referred to as Avenida Maximo Gomez while in SDN it is known as Avenida Hermanas Mirabal.

Avenida Maximo Gomez

Avenida Maximo Gomez starts in the Malecon (Av. George Washington), Santo Domingo's coastal waterfront, and continues north intersecting Expreso 27 de Febrero and then Expreso John F Kennedy. These are the two most important transportation corridors of the city. It then exits central Santo Domingo and continues Northward across the

until reaching the

Ozama River The Ozama River () is a river in the Dominican Republic. It rises in the Loma Siete Cabezas mountain in the Sierra de Yamasá mountain range, close to the town of Villa Altagracia. History In 1498, Bartolome Colon had a fort built on the Ozama ...

Avenida Hermanas Mirabal

Carretera de Yamasa

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