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19 00 N, 70 40 W
Regional Information

Caribbean, eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti

Capital City

Santo Domingo
Regional Relationships

Haitian migrants cross the porous border into the Dominican Republic to find work; illegal migrants from the Dominican Republic cross the Mona Passage each year to Puerto Rico to find better work
Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements

Challenges

water shortages; soil eroding into the sea damages coral reefs; deforestation

International Agreements

party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered S pecies, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
Humanitarian Projects
Native Languages

Spanish
Climate

tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation; seasonal variation in rainfall