Place:Elías Piña, Dominican Republic

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NameElías Piña
Alt namesElias Piñasource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 175
La Estrelletasource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeProvince
Coordinates19.0°N 71.583°W
Located inDominican Republic
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Elías Piña
Unknown
Bánica
Comendador
El Llano
Hondo Valle
Pedro Santana
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Elías Piña is a westernmost province which composing one of the 32 provinces of the Dominican Republic. It is divided into 6 municipalities and its capital city is Comendador. It is bordered by the provinces of Dajabón to the north-west, Santiago Rodríguez to the north-east, San Juan to the east, Independencia to the south and the Nord-Est department of Haiti to the west.

It was created on 1942 with the name San Rafael. In 1965, its name was changed to Estrelleta and, finally, in 1972 it got its current name. It was a municipio of the San Juan province before being elevated to the category of province.

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