Information about Santo Domingo (The Dominican Republic, Distrito Nacional)
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| ABOUT SANTO DOMINGO Santo Domingo, or Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city in the Dominican Republic. Its metropolitan population was 2,084,852 in 2003, and estimated at 2,253,437 in 2006. The city is located on the Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Ozama River. Founded by Bartholomew Columbus in 1496, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Americas, and was the first seat of Spanish colonial rule in the New World. Santo Domingo came to be known as the \"Gateway to the Caribbean\". It lies within the boundaries of the Distrito Nacional (D.N.; \"National District\"), itself bordered on three sides by Santo Domingo Province. Santo Domingo bore the name \"Ciudad Trujillo\", after the country\'s dictator, from 1930 to 1961. Today, Santo Domingo is the Dominican Republic\'s major metropolis, and is the largest city in the Caribbean by population. |