The Dominican

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of Pedernales is the capital of the

Pedernales Province Pedernales (; ) is the southernmost province of the Dominican Republic, including the offshore island of Isla Beata. It was split from Barahona in 1957. Of its 2,074.53 km2, 1374 km2 belong to the Jaragua National Park. A third of its ...

, 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 wit ...

. It is located in the southwest of the country, on the

Dominican Republic–Haiti border The Dominican Republic–Haiti border is an international border between the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Extending from the Caribbean Sea in the south to the Atlantic Ocean in the north, the 391 ...

, and has a crossing to the

Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

an town of Anse-à-Pitres.

National Parks

* Parque Nacional Jaragua * Parque Nacional Sierra de Bahoruco These two parks, along with

Lake Enriquillo Lake Enriquillo ( es, Lago Enriquillo) is a hypersaline lake in the Dominican Republic located in the southwestern region of the country. Its waters are shared between the provinces of Bahoruco and Independencia, the latter of which borders Hait ...

and adjoining zones of the Municipality Pedernales, form the first biosphere reserve in the country.

History

The official foundation of the colony of Pedernales was produced in the year 1927 during the Government of Horacio Vásquez, who appointed as Administrator to the well-known writer

Sócrates Nolasco Arístides Sócrates Henríquez Nolasco was a writer from the Dominican Republic. He was born in what is now Enriquillo in Barahona Province on March 20, 1884, and died in Santo Domingo on July 2, 1980.http://fundacioncorripio.org/productos_detalle ...

The colonists proceeded of Duvergé mostly. The first one was Mr. Genaro Perez Rocha, a prosperous rancher, who would later bring the first resident families who came from Duverge. In the year 1937 the highway was built to join with this locality and Oviedo, in whose works they participated 500 men divided into brigades of 10 each one. Pedernales_Dominican_Republic_Border

By Resolution of the City Hall of Enriquillo in the 1938, Pedernales was raised to Municipal District. The name of Pedernales stems from the denomination Flint that is a variety of very common quartz of yellowish color "that produces spark with the link". This stone is found in the river of Pedernales, that limit frontier in the south extreme between Haiti and Dominican Republic.

Bahia de las Aguilas

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Touristic Places

*Hoyo de Pelempito * Cabo Rojo *Río de Paso Sena *El Mulito *Playa Pedernales *Playa

Bahia de las Aguilas Bahía de las Aguilas (literally "Eagles’ Bay"), is an long beach along the southwestern coast of the Dominican Republic in the province of Pedernales near the southernmost part of the border with Haiti. The bay is part of the Jaragua National ...

Culture

*Grupo de Baile Folklórico *Baton Ballet *Banda de Música *Palos y Atabales *Pelea de Gallos

Climate

Its location over a number of

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s through the highlands of Hispaniola from the northeasterly

trade wind The trade winds or easterlies are the permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region. The trade winds blow mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisph ...

s gives Pedernales a

semi-arid climate A semi-arid climate, semi-desert climate, or steppe climate is a dry climate sub-type. It is located on regions that receive precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate. There are different kinds of semi-ar ...

(

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''BSh''). Rainfall is highest in September and October when

tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Depend ...

s may strike the whole island, and temperatures are generally warmer during the day than in much of the tropics.

References

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