Santo Domingo Oeste

Santo Domingo Oeste is a municipality of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. It is part of the greater Santo Domingo metropolitan area, which is the de facto co-capital of the Dominican Republic as seat of the Constitutional Court and the Central Electoral Commission.

Santo Domingo Oeste
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Santo Domingo Oeste Santo Domingo Oeste in the Dominican Republic
Coordinates: 18°30′0″N 70°0′0″W
Country	Dominican Republic
Province	Santo Domingo
Municipality since	2001
Area [1]
• Total	54.10 km^2 (20.89 sq mi)
Population  (2012)[2]
• Total	693,255
• Density	13,000/km^2 (33,000/sq mi)
Municipal Districts	0
Website	http://www.asdo.gov.do/web/

For comparison with other municipalities and municipal districts see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

Santo Domingo Oeste was created as municipality in 2001 by law 163-01 splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional including parts of metropolitan Santo Domingo west of the DR-1 (Autopista Duarte).[3]

References

1. Superficies a nivel de municipios, Oficina Nacional de Estadistica Archived 2009-04-17 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Informe Básico - IX Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda" (in Spanish). Oficina Nacional de Estadistica. 2012-05-05. Archived from the original on 2012-10-31. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
3. EL CONGRESO NACIONAL. "Ley No. 163-01 que crea la provincia de Santo Domingo, y modifica los Artículos 1 y 2 de la Ley No. 5220, sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2007-05-18. Retrieved 2007-03-08.