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	El Seibo
	Province
Country	Dominican Republic
Capital	Santa Cruz de El Seibo
- elevation	117 m (384 ft)
- coordinates	18°46′12″N 69°2′24″W / 18.77°N 69.04°W
Area	1,786.80 km2 (690 sq mi)
Population	89,261 (2002)
Density	50.0 /km2 (129 /sq mi)
Province since	1844
Subdivisions	2 municipalities; 5 municipal districts
Congresspersons	1 Senator; 2 Deputies
Timezone	EST (UTC-4)
Area code	1-809 1-829 1-849
ISO 3166-2	DO-08
Postal Code	24000
	Location of the El Seibo Province

"El Seibo" redirects here. For The capital of the Province, see Santa Cruz de El Seibo.

Coordinates: 18°46′12″N 69°2′24″W / 18.77°N 69.04°W

El Seibo, alternatively spelt El Seybo, is a province of the Dominican Republic. Before 1992 it included what is now Hato Mayor province.

A nice game of baseball in Santa Cruz de El Seibo, Dominican Republic.

[edit] Municipalities and municipal districts

The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following municipalities (municipios) and municipal districts (distrito municipal - M.D.) within them:^[1]

Santa Cruz de El Seibo, head municipality of the province
1. Pedro Sánchez (M.D.)
2. San Francisco-Vicentillo (M.D.)
3. Santa Lucía (M.D.)
Miches
1. El Cedro (M.D.)
2. La Gina (M.D.)

The following is a sortable table of the municipalities and municipal districts with population figures as of the 2002 census. Urban population are those living in the seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities or of municipal districts. Rural population are those living in the districts (Secciones literally sections) and neighborhoods (Parajes literally places) outside of them.^[2]

Municipalities of the Province.

Name	Total population	Urban population	Rural population
Miches	&0000000000021198.00000021,198	&0000000000009575.0000009,575	&0000000000011623.00000011,623
Santa Cruz de El Seibo	&0000000000068063.00000068,063	&0000000000024163.00000024,163	&0000000000043900.00000043,900
El Seibo province	&0000000000089261.00000089,261	&0000000000033738.00000033,738	&0000000000055523.00000055,523

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

[edit] Politics

In the 2006 elections, one senator and three deputies were elected for the province. The senator is Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández from the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD). The deputies are Kenia Milagros Mejía Mercedes of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), Juan Maldonado Castro (PRD), and Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández (PRD).

[edit] References

^ Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos. "Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006" (in Spanish). http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=113. Retrieved 2007-01-24.
^ Oficina Nacional de Estadística. "VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda" (in Spanish) (PDF). http://one.gob.do/censo/volumen_I_pdf.zip. Retrieved 2007-01-24.

[edit] External links

(Spanish) Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Statistics Portal of the Dominican Republic
(Spanish) Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Maps with administrative division of the provinces of the Dominican Republic, downloadable in PDF format

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[0] Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos. "Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006" (in Spanish). http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=113. Retrieved 2007-01-24.

[1] Oficina Nacional de Estadística. "VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda" (in Spanish) (PDF). http://one.gob.do/censo/volumen_I_pdf.zip. Retrieved 2007-01-24.

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[edit] Municipalities and municipal districts

[edit] Politics

[edit] References

[edit] External links