dominican geography

the dominican latitud is 17 30" and 20 00" paralel of the north and 68 20" and 72 00" of the west longitud in the wester hemisphere. our country ocupped the 64% of the territory of the hispaniola or santo domingo island, with 48670 km2 of superficie with a costline of 1567 kms our biggest mountian is "pico duarte" our biggest lake is"enriquillo" 44 mts beneath the sea level, salad water and threee litle islands on its interior with 286 km2 biggest adjent island its "saona" with 105 kms2 and a population of lest than 500 people our biggest rivers is the "yaque del norte" with 296 km of longitude and carries water for 80mts3/seg. enciclopedia ilustrada dominicana