El Seibo (), alternatively spelt El Seybo, is a

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions out ...

of 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 ...

. Before 1992 it included what is now Hato Mayor province.

Municipalities and municipal districts

The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following

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(''

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s'') and municipal districts (''distrito municipal'' - M.D.) within them: #

Santa Cruz de El Seibo Santa Cruz del Seibo or El Seibo, is a city and municipality in the El Seibo Province of the Dominican Republic, located in the eastern part of the country. History El Seibo is one of the oldest towns in the country, it was created by the Const ...

, head municipality of the province ##

Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having p ...

(M.D.) ##San Francisco-Vicentillo (M.D.) ##Santa Lucía (M.D.) #

Miches Miches is a town located in El Seibo province in the northeast coast of the Dominican Republic. The community sits between the northern slopes of the Cordillera Oriental and the southern shore of the Samaná Bay. Miches is an emerging rural comm ...

##El Cedro (M.D.) ##La Gina (M.D.) The following is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts with population figures as of the 2014 estimate.

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population are those living in the seats (''cabeceras'', literally heads) of municipalities or of municipal districts.

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population are those living in the

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s (''secciones'', literally sections) and

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s (''Pparajes'', literally places) outside them. The population figures are from the 2014 population estimate. For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see the

list of municipalities and municipal districts 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 estab ...

Olivia Peguero Pintura en plein air working near the town of Miches, en la provincia de El Seibo en la República Dominicana

For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see the

Politics

In the 2006 elections, one senator and three deputies were elected for the province. The senator is Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández from the

Dominican Revolutionary Party The Dominican Revolutionary Party ( es, link=no, Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, PRD) is a political party in the Dominican Republic. Traditionally a left-of-centre party and social democratic in nature, the party has shifted since the 2000 ...

(PRD). The deputies are Kenia Milagros Mejía Mercedes of the

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 ...

(PLD), Juan Maldonado Castro (PRD), and Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández (PRD).

Notable people

* Charytin singer and actress, born in the town of Santa Lucia. *

Carlos Febles Carlos Manuel Febles (, ; born May 24, 1976) is a Dominican professional baseball coach, and former second baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1998 to 2003 with the Kansas City Royals. He threw and batted right-handed and was l ...

- baseball player and coach

References

External links

*
Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Statistics Portal of the Dominican Republic
*
Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Maps with administrative division of the provinces of the Dominican Republic
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