Samaná Bay is a bay in the eastern Dominican Republic. The Yuna River flows into Samaná Bay, and it is located south of the town of Samaná and the Samaná...
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Trujillo era. Samaná was also once known as the Samana Bay Company of Santo Domingo. The Samaná province is occupied by the Sierra de Samaná mountain range...
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northeastern Dominican Republic and the capital of Samaná Province. It is on the northern coast of Samaná Bay. The town is an important tourism destination...
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the isthmus of Samaná; to its south is Samaná Bay. The peninsula contains many beaches, especially in the city of Santa Bárbara de Samaná. It contains three...
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The Samana Bay Company of Santo Domingo was a company established in the mid-19th century with the aim of developing the Samaná Peninsula in the Dominican...
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the Dominican Republic Samaná (town), or Santa Bárbara de Samaná, the capital of Samaná Province Samaná Peninsula Samaná Bay, a body of water in the...
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location where some argue it is the present-day Samaná Bay while others claim it is the present-day Bay of Rincón. On his first voyage, Christopher Columbus...
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that included the annexation of the country itself and the purchase of Samaná Bay for two million American dollars. Also included and supported by Grant...
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northwest, the Tortuga Island, and to the southeast, the Samaná Peninsula (with its Sierra de Samaná). Its highest mountain is Diego de Ocampo, close to Santiago...
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Sánchez, Dominican Republic (redirect from Sánchez, Samaná)
Republic is a Dominican municipality in the Samaná province, on the south coast of the peninsula of Samaná. The old town of Las Cañitas was elevated to...
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Cayo Levantado (category Geography of Samaná Province)
Cayo Levantado is an island in Samaná Bay, located in the Samaná Province in the eastern region of Dominican Republic. It is a well-known tourist destination...
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Golden Fleece by two American divers, John Chatterton and John Mattera, in Samaná Bay off the north coast of the Dominican Republic in 2008. Until Chatterton...
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Arroyo Barril Airport (category Buildings and structures in Samaná Province)
of Samaná, the capital of Samaná Province in the Dominican Republic. The airport is on the southern shore of the Samaná Peninsula, facing Samaná Bay to...
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have heard the pirates say they would head toward the Spanish-controlled Samaná Bay in Hispaniola, but a cursory search revealed no pirate activity. Captain...
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Bannister in July 1686 when they found him careening Golden Fleece in Samaná Bay. Bannister faced two British frigates, Falcon and Drake, with a combined...
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is a community of a few thousand people whose ancestors spoke Samaná English in the Samaná Peninsula. They are the descendants of formerly enslaved African...
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the northeastern region of Dominican Republic, on the southern side of Samaná Bay. It is an urban area with 508.52 km2. In the years 1605 and 1606 the lands...
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his last stop of this voyage in the Americas, in the Bay of Rincón at the eastern end of the Samaná Peninsula in northeast Hispaniola. There he encountered...
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l'Ouest [fr] West cardinal direction Haiti 1795–1800 Département de Samana [fr] Samaná Bay Dominican Republic 1795–1800 Saint Lucia Island of St Lucia Saint...
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Arroyo Barril (redirect from Arroyo Barril, Samaná)
Bárbara de Samaná, Samaná Province in the Dominican Republic. It is on the south coast of the Samaná Peninsula, on the coast of Samaná Bay. It was elevated...
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Los Haitises National Park (category Geography of Samaná Province)
north to south (from the Samaná Bay to Bayaguana). The hills of the interior have the same origin as the islets of the Samaná Bay. There is a multitude of...
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Yuna River (category Geography of Samaná Province)
Barracote runs southeast-east as it reaches its mouth at the Samaná Bay (Spanish: Bahía de Samaná) in the municipality of Sánchez at an elevation of 1 m (3...
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hunters John Chatterton and John Mattera in the Dominican Republic, at Samaná Bay. The discovery is recounted in Robert Kurson's book Pirate Hunters (2015)...
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seek protection from a foreign power. Offering the deepwater harbor of Samaná bay as bait, over the next two decades, negotiations were made with Britain...
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nation. The Dominican Republic would be annexed for $1.5 million and Samaná Bay would be lease-purchased for $2 million. Generals D.B. Sackett and Rufus...
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mention by the Spanish of encountering Indians using bows and arrows was at Samaná Bay in northeastern Hispaniola. One of the few artifacts of Lucayan life that...
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northern slopes of the Cordillera Oriental and the southern shore of the Samaná Bay. In 1936, the community formerly known as El Jovero changed its name -through...
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the bay is entirely within two provinces, María Trinidad Sánchez in the west, and Samaná in the south. "First is that Columbus calls the said bay "very...
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Republican Senator Cornelius Cole. On the voyage the Tybee stopped at Samaná Bay and observed there was a "splendid coal station" on the island. The indigenous...
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northwest of Haiti, and the Samaná peninsula, northeast of the Dominican Republic. The Dominican government received the Samaná lease proposal through Undersecretary...
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