Higüey
Sign in to saveHigüey (), or in full Salvaleón de Higüey, is the capital city of the eastern La Altagracia Province, in the Dominican Republic, and has 415,084 inhabitants, according to the 2022 census. The Yuma River flows through the urban areas of Higüey.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Salvaleón de Higüey
- Settlement.name
- Higüey
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Higuey, Dominican Republic church cathedral.jpg
- Settlement.imagesize
- 300px
- Settlement.image_caption
- First cathedral of Higüey
- Settlement.image_seal
- Escudo_del_Municipio_Salvaleón_de_Higüey.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Dominican Republic
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- 2
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Dominican Republic
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- La Altagracia
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1503
- Settlement.established_title2
- Municipality since
- Settlement.established_date2
- 1844
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2029.14
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Toponomy
- Economy
- Tourism
- History
- Sectors
- Climate
- Basilica of La Altagracia
- The Sanctuary of Higüey
- Airport
- Tourist sites
- See also
- References
Higüey (), or in full Salvaleón de Higüey, is the capital city of the eastern La Altagracia Province, in the Dominican Republic, and has 415,084 inhabitants, according to the 2022 census. The Yuma River flows through the urban areas of Higüey.
Higüey is also the name of a former native chiefdom in Hispaniola's easternmost end when Christopher Columbus arrived. It is now one of the country's economically fastest-developing cities, sometimes nicknamed the Capital of Dominican Tourism or the Capital of Stockbreeding. As of 2006, over 150,000 people lived in Higüey. The city thrives chiefly on tourism, with many of its inhabitants employed in the hotel complexes of Punta Cana a few kilometers away, or selling tourist products.