Duarte Province

Template:Geobox Duarte (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdwaɾte]) is a province of the Dominican Republic. It is named after Juan Pablo Duarte, founder of the Dominican Republic.

It was created in 1896 as a district (an old country subdivision) with the name Distrito Pacificador but the Constitution of 1907 changed the category to province. In 1925 its name was changed to Duarte.

Geography

The province has a total area of 1,605.35 km².^[1] It has 3.3% of the area of the Dominican Republic and it is ranked as the 13th (out of 31 plus the National District) largest province.

Duarte borders with provinces María Trinidad Sánchez, Espaillat and Samaná to the north; with Samaná to the east; with Monte Plata and Sánchez Ramírez to the south; and with Hermanas Mirabal and La Vega to the west.

Municipalities

The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following municipalities (municipios) and municipal districts (distrito municipal - D.M.) within them:^[2]

San Francisco de Macorís, head municipality of the province
- Cenoví (D.M.)
- Jaya (D.M.)
- La Peña (D.M.)
- Presidente Don Antonio Guzmán Fernández (D.M.)
Arenoso
- El Aguacate (D.M.)
- Las Coles (D.M.)
Castillo
Eugenio María de Hostos
- Sabana Grande (D.M.)
Las Guáranas
Pimentel
Villa Riva
- Agua Santa del Yuna (D.M.)
- Barraquito (D.M.)
- Cristo Rey de Guaraguao (D.M.)
- Guáranas Arriba (D.M.)

Population

The following is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts with population figures as of the 2014 estimate. Urban population are those living in the seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities or of municipal districts. Rural population are those living in the districts (Secciones literally sections) and neighborhoods (Parajes literally places) outside them.The population figures are from the 2014 population estimate.^[3]

Name	Total population	Urban population	Rural population
Arenoso	15,122	2,895	12,227
Castillo	18,962	12,541	6,421
Eugenio Maria de Hostos	16,232	5,411	10,821
Las Guáranas	16,022	6,524	9,498
Pimentel	23,202	14,677	8,525
San Francisco de Macorís	213,906	155,132	58,774
Villa Riva	35,203	4,412	30,791
Duarte province	338,649	201,592	137,057

For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

References

^ Listado de Códigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Archived March 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ Oficina Nacional de Estadística. "División Territorial 2008" (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2009-10-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
^ Consejo Nacional de Población y Familia. "Estamaciones y Proyecciones de la Población Dominicana por Regiones, Provincias, Municipios y Distritos Municipales, 2014" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-02-02.^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

[1] Listado de Códigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Archived March 13, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[division-2] Oficina Nacional de Estadística. "División Territorial 2008" (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-04-14. Retrieved 2009-10-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

[censusvol1-3] Consejo Nacional de Población y Familia. "Estamaciones y Proyecciones de la Población Dominicana por Regiones, Provincias, Municipios y Distritos Municipales, 2014" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved 2014-02-02.^{[permanent dead link]}

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