dominican geography

the dominican republic comprise almost the 3/4 parts of the hispaniola island at the center of the caribbean sea in the greaters antilles of the american coninent. its has a bunch of small island near its coast(one of then artificial) the bigger one being the saona island (also the only habitaed one) the mountians system of great importance and some smaller ones(sierras) the central mountains sistem(la cordillera central) lies in the most fertile land and its the base for the biggest rivers:el yaque del norte, el yaque del sur, el yuna, others importants rivers are the yuma, and the multifluvial sistem of"the yabacao,the isabela and the ozama rivers(ozama means big in the arawack tounge that was spoken before the europpean came)the ozama rivers its the one the divides the capital city(santo domingo de guzman almost all the dominican coast it made of sand, rock formations being the second most common, so we have lots of beaches in the dominican republic. we also have forests and extensive plains(la gran llanura oriental) that was used to grow sugar by the spanierds up until the last part of the xx century a.d.