Higüey
Higüey, or in full Salvaleón de Higüey, is the capital city of the eastern La Altagracia Province, in the Dominican Republic, and the eighth largest city of that country.Notable Places in the Area
Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia
Photo: Celiovmota, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica-Cathedral of Our Lady of Altagracia is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and cathedral in the Dominican Republic dedicated to Our Lady of Altagracia, patroness of the nation.
Higüey
- Type: City with 124,000 residents
- Description: capital city of La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic
- Categories: municipality of the Dominican Republic and locality
- Location: La Altagracia Province, Eastern Dominican Republic, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, North America
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Latitude
18.6128° or 18° 36' 46" northLongitude
-68.712° or 68° 42' 43" westPopulation
124,000Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)Open Location Code
77CHJ77Q+46OpenStreetMap ID
node 250651118OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3493240Wikidata ID
Q1020261Higüey Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Arabic: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Asturian: Higüey
- Catalan: Higüey
- Cebuano: Higüey
- Cebuano: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Chinese: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Chinese: 伊圭
- Chinese: 西歸
- Czech: Higüey
- Czech: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Dutch: Higuey
- Dutch: Higüey
- English: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Esperanto: Higüey
- French: Higuey
- French: Higüey
- German: Higüey
- German: Salvaleon de Higüey
- German: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Hebrew: איגוויי
- Hungarian: Higüey
- Indonesian: Higüey
- Italian: Higüey
- Italian: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Japanese: イグエイ
- Kazakh: Игуэй
- Korean: 이구에이
- Lithuanian: Higvėjus
- Macedonian: Игвеј
- Min Nan Chinese: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Norwegian: Higüey
- Norwegian Bokmål: Higüey
- Ossetian: Игуэй
- Persian: ایگوی
- Polish: Higuey
- Polish: Higüey
- Polish: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Portuguese: Higüey
- Portuguese: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Russian: Игуэй
- Russian: Игёй
- Spanish: Alcalde
- Spanish: Higüey
- Spanish: Rafael Baron Duluc Rijo (Cholitín)
- Spanish: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Swedish: Higuey
- Swedish: Higüey
- Swedish: Salvaleon de Higuey
- Swedish: Salvaleón de Higüey
- Thai: ซัลบาเลออนเดอิเกวย์
- Turkish: hüişlkç
- Ukrainian: Ігуей
- Urdu: ایغوئے
- Waray (Philippines): Salvaleón de Higüey
- Salvaleon de Higueey
- 이궤이
Other Places Named Higüey
In the Area
- San FranciscoNeighbourhood
- San JoseNeighbourhood
- San Martín De PorresNeighbourhood
- SavicaNeighbourhood
- La FloridaNeighbourhood
- NazaretNeighbourhood
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