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Dominican Republic
Capital: Santo Domingo
- Santo Domingo was founded in 1496 by Bartholomew Columbus and was Western Europe's first permanent settlement in the New World.
- The Santa María La Menor cathedral is described as the first cathedral of the Americas and dates to the 16th century.
- The surface of Lake Enriquillo is about 46 metres below sea level, and the lake has the Caribbean's largest population of American crocodiles.
- Pico Duarte rises about 3,101 metres in the Cordillera Central, making it the highest peak in the whole Caribbean.
- At the 2015 season opening, 83 of the 868 Major League Baseball players were Dominican-born, the second-highest count after the United States.