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Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
Santo Domingo Urban Adventures
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| Beside 4D Cinema, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Puerto Plata, officially known as San Felipe de Puerto Plata, is the ninth-largest city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of the province of Puerto Plata. The city is a trading port. Puerto Plata has resorts such as Playa Dorada and Costa Dorada, which are located east of the city proper. There are 100,000 hotel beds in the city. The only aerial tramway in the Caribbean is located in Puerto Plata, in which visitors can ride up to the Pico Isabel de Torres, a 793 meter high mountain within the city. The fortification Fortaleza San Felipe, which was built in the 16th century and served as a prison under Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship, lies close to the port of Puerta Plata. The amber museum, is also a well-known attraction in this city. La Isabela, a settlement built by Christopher Columbus, is located near Puerto Plata. In April 1563, the Spanish settlement became notorious when the English slave trader Sir John Hawkins brought 400 people he had abducted from Sierra Leone. Hawkins traded his victims with the Spanish for pearls, hides, sugar and some gold. This was the start of British involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. During the 1822–44 Haitian occupation it was officially designated as Port-de-Plate.
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