Santiago Province (Dominican Republic)

Santiago (Spanish pronunciation: [sanˈtjaɣo]) is a province which currently comprising one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic. It is divided into 10 municipalities and its capital city is Santiago de los Caballeros. Located in north-central Dominican Republic, in the Cibao region, it is bordered by the provinces of Valverde to the north-west, Puerto Plata to the north, Espaillat and La Vega to the east, San Juan to the south and Santiago Rodríguez to the west.

For other places with the same name, see Santiago (disambiguation).
Santiago
Province
Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration War
Coat of arms
Location of Santiago Province
Coordinates: 19°21′24″N 70°54′32″W
Country Dominican Republic
Province since1844
CapitalSantiago de los Caballeros
Government
 • TypeSubdivisions
 • Body10 municipalities
20 municipal districts
 • Congresspersons1 Senator
18 Deputies
Area
 • Total2,806.29 km2 (1,083.51 sq mi)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total1,503,362
 • Density540/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
Area code1-809 1-829 1-849
ISO 3166-2DO-25
Postal Code51000
Websitewww.provinciasantiago.gov.do/
Municipalities of the Province.

It is home to an intellectual, educational, and cultural center. It is also a major industrial center with rum, textile, cigarette and cigar industries based there. Shoe manufacturing, leather goods, and furniture making are important parts of the province's economic life. Santiago also has major Free Zone centers with four important industrial free zones; it also has an important cement factory. Santiago is home to one of the largest medical centers in the country, Clínica Unión Médica, which serves all 13 provinces of El Cibao.

Also within striking distance there are a good number of pleasant towns, many of which are quite prosperous. It is surrounded by tall mountains which have for years protected it from hurricanes and allows for dense tropical forests to develop on the slopes of such mountains, which are among the highest in the region.

Municipalities and municipal districts

The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following municipalities (municipios) and municipal districts (distritos municipales – D.M.) within them:[1]

The following is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts with population figures as of the 2014 estimate. Urban population are those living in the seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities or of municipal districts. Rural population are those living in the districts (Secciones literally sections) and neighborhoods (Parajes literally places) outside of them. The population figures are from the 2014 population estimate.[3]

Name Total population Urban population Rural population
Baitoa 32,5708,95823,612
Jánico 58,52124,36234,159
Licey al Medio 64,52253,21111,311
Puñal 77,56274,1883,374
Sabana Iglesia 47,52215,84231,680
San José de las Matas 68,21235,90032,312
Santiago de los Caballeros 1,000,087733,109266,978
Tamboril 79,52214,70064,822
Villa Bisonó 55,52329,03926,484
Villa González 59,32129,92729,394
Santiago province 1,543,3621,019,236524,126

For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces, see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

Santiago City's skyline at La Trinitaria

Notable natives

References
  1. Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos. "Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-03-14. Retrieved 2007-01-24.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. new municipality of Baitoa
  3. Consejo Nacional de Población y Familia. "Estamaciones y Proyecciones de la Población Dominicana por Regiones, Provincias, Municipios y Distritos Municipales, 2014" (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-02. Retrieved 2014-02-02.
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