Know The Dominican Republic!

DRT aims to be a guide for anyone who wants to visit the Dominican Republic to know its beaches, hotels, nature, its people.

Dominican Republic Tours offers information about tourism activities nationwide, here you’ll find a preview of those activities and where take place, in Dominican Republic there are more than 150 All Inclusive Resorts just in the Punta Cana and Bávaro area, find the one that convince you and probably it will exceed your expectation.

Maybe you are wondering where Punta Cana is, it’s located in the east of the Dominican Republic, in the province of La Altagracia.

And where the Dominican Republic is? it’s right in the middle of the Caribbean.

Brief History of Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic is in the second largest island ( shared with Haiti) of the Greater Antilles.

The Taíno people called the island Quisqueya (mother of all lands) and Ayiti (land of high mountains)They had inhabited The Hispaniola island before the arrival of Europeans, dividing it into five chiefdoms. The Taíno people had eventually moved north over many years and lived around the Caribbean islands. The Taíno natives had constructed an advanced farming and hunting society and were on their way to being an organized civilization. Christopher Columbus explored and claimed the island for Spain, landing there on his first voyage in 1492. The colony of Santo Domingo became the site of the first permanent European settlement in the Americas, and the first seat of the Spanish colonial rule in the New World. Meanwhile, France occupied the western third of Hispaniola, naming their colony Saint-Domingue, which became the independent state of Haiti in 1804 after the Haitian Revolution.

The recorded history of the Dominican Republic began when the Genoa-born navigator Christopher Columbus, working for the Spanish Crown, happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. It was inhabited by the Taíno, an Arawakan people, who variously called their island Ayiti, Bohio, or Quisqueya (Kiskeya). Columbus promptly claimed the island for the Spanish Crown, naming it La Isla Española (“the Spanish Island”), later Latinized to Hispaniola. What would become the Dominican Republic was the Spanish Captaincy General of Santo Domingo until 1821, except for a time as a French colony from 1795 to 1809. It was then part of a unified Hispaniola with Haiti from 1822 until 1844. on February 27, 1844, the Trinitarios declared independence from HaitiI, the independence was proclaimed and the republic, which was often known as Santo Domingo until the early 20th century, maintained its independence except for a short Spanish occupation from 1861 to 1865 and occupation by the United States from 1916 to 1924.

Come to visit us

You are invited to explore its wonderful beaches in the Bavaro area at the east coast of the island, visit Samana, come to Puerto Plata, go through La Romana-Bayahibe.

Excursions & Activities

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