The Dominican Republic, aside from being on the eastern part of Hispaniola (an island which it shares with Haiti), contains many small islands as part of a territory. There were two islands, Cabritos Island, that were in the Isla Cabritos National Park (Parque Nacional Isla Cabritos) on Lake Enriquillo. They were submerged by December 2011.) The other islands are on the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean Sea (see map link to the right).[1][2]
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The locations of these islands are listed below:[2]
In addition, two submerged islands, banks, are part of the Dominican Republic:
... investigador Jorge E. Rodríguez resaltó que han encontrado que el lago Enriquillo ha aumentado en 100%, duplicando su tamaño desde el año 1984, ya que registra una superficie de 350 kilómetros cuadrados, frente a 172 kilómetros cuadrados. [... researcher Jorge E. Rodriguez stressed that he found Lake Enriquillo has increased by 100%, doubling in size since 1984 as it records an area of 350 square kilometers, compared to 172 square kilometers.]
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^These three form the SSS islands that with the ABC islands comprise the Dutch Caribbean, of which *the BES islands are not direct Kingdom constituents but subsumed with the country of the Netherlands. †Physiographically, these continental islands are not part of the volcanic Windward Islands arc, although sometimes grouped with them culturally and politically. ǂDisputed territories administered by Guyana. ~Disputed territories administered by Colombia. #Bermuda is an isolated North Atlantic oceanic island, physiographically not part of the Lucayan Archipelago, Antilles, Caribbean Sea nor North American continental nor South American continental islands. It is grouped with the Northern American region, but occasionally also with the Caribbean region culturally. |
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