Independencia Province

Independencia
Independencia
Province
	Statue of the Taino Enriquillo.
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Area code	1-809 1-829 1-849
ISO 3166-2	DO-10
Postal Code	83000

Independencia (Spanish pronunciation: [indepenˈdensja]) is a province of the Dominican Republic, located in the west, on the border with Haiti. Its capital is Jimani. The province was created in 1948 but was made official in 1950. Before its creation, it was part of the Baoruco Province. The name was given in remembrance of the National Independence of February 27, 1844.

History

The province Independencia was founded in the lands that in previous times belonged to a Cacique called Ximani who was related to the cacicazgo of Xaragua. Little is known of Ximani as the ties with between the natives of Ximani and the Spanish were practically non-existent. The law that created this province, December 29, 1948, had originally assigned the name of "Provincia de Jimaní" to the province. The name was then changed January 28, 1949, to "Provincia Nueva Era". The name was then finally changed to the present one, "Independence", on May 13, 1949.

Municipalities and municipal districts

The province as of June 20, 2006, is divided into the following

municipalities (municipios) and municipal districts (distritos municipales - D.M.) within the latter:^[1]

Cristóbal

Batey 8 (D.M.)
Duvergé
- Vengan a Ver (D.M.)
- Puerto Escondido (D.M.)
Jimaní
- Boca de Cachón
  (D.M.)
- El Limón
  (D.M.)
La Descubierta
Mella
- La Colonia (D.M.)
Postrer Río
- Guayabal (D.M.)

The following is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts, with population figures as of the 2012 census.

neighborhoods (Parajes, literally "places") outside of them.^[2]

For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see the

list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic

.

South shore of Lake Enriquillo, looking northward to the Sierra de Neiba mountains, Independencia Province, Dominican Republic (2007)

Name	Total population	Urban population	Rural population
Cristóbal	7,952	2,967	4,985
Duvergé	25,971	15,452	10,519
Jimaní	19,263	11,742	7,521
La Descubierta	10,022	5,767	4,255
Mella	5,052	4,131	921
Postrer Río	6,323	2,338	3,985
Independencia province	74,583	42,397	32,186

References

^ Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos. "Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 14, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Consejo Nacional de Población y Familia. "Censos y Proyecciones de la Población Dominicana por Regiones, Provincias, Municipios y Distritos Municipales, 2012" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved January 11, 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}

External links

(in Spanish) Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Maps with administrative division of the provinces of the Dominican Republic, downloadable in
PDF
format

[1] Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos. "Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on March 14, 2007. Retrieved January 24, 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[censusvol1-2] Consejo Nacional de Población y Familia. "Censos y Proyecciones de la Población Dominicana por Regiones, Provincias, Municipios y Distritos Municipales, 2012" (PDF) (in Spanish). Retrieved January 11, 2012.^{[permanent dead link]}

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History

Municipalities and municipal districts

See also

References

External links