Neiba
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Neiba (also spelt Neyba) is a city in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. It is the capital city of the Baoruco province, and is located 180 kilometres west of the national capital, Santo Domingo, close to the shore of Lake Enriquillo, the largest lake in the West Indies.
Key facts
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- Neiba
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- Neyba
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- Municipal building of Neiba
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- Dominican Republic
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- 1
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- bottom
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- Location in the Dominican Republic
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- Country
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- Province
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- Baoruco
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- Founded
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- 1735
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- Municipality
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- 1844
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 275.33
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Dominican Republic
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Located in
- Baoruco Province
- Population
- 36511
- Area
- 282.3
- Elevation
- 10
- Capital of
- Baoruco Province
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- Neyba
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Encyclopedic overview
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Neiba (also spelt Neyba) is a city in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. It is the capital city of the Baoruco province, and is located 180 kilometres west of the national capital, Santo Domingo, close to the shore of Lake Enriquillo, the largest lake in the West Indies.
==History== Before the conquest and colonization of Hispaniola, the place was a nitainato belonging to the Chiefdom of Jaragua.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Neiba” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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