Las Terrenas

Las Terrenas on the map of Dominican Republic

Las Terrenas is a major tourist town in the province of Samaná in the north- east of the Dominican Republic.

The former fishing village has grown to become an international tourist destination with hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and diving schools and similar sports clubs since the 1990s. However, the relatively remote location of the village, which was only accessible via two curvaceous provincial roads either Sanchez or Samaná by car, stalled its development.

Since October 2011, Las Terrenas is also accessible via the paid highway "Boulevard del Atlántico ".

Since November 2006, Las Terrenas is better served by the new international airport El Catey near Sánchez; However, Air Berlin / LTU and Condor have deleted this airport in 2010 again from their flight plan.

Las Terrenas is an international place today. In addition to the domestic population here are people from about 40 countries, especially Haitians and French, who have always been speilten a significant role in the history of the village.

Growth

The law 185-80, from November 12, 1980 in Las Terrenas was with approximately 5,700 inhabitants located in the municipality ( " Municipal District " ) in the municipality Sánchez incremented by one.

With 14,000 inhabitants, it was felt that Las Terrenas meets all the requirements to form a separate municipality ( " municipality "). This was in 1994 formulated the law 18-96, adopted and promulgated on 19 September 1996.