Key facts
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Province
- La Vega
- Total
- 410.9 km (158.6 sq mi)
- Urban
- 30.71 km (11.86 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 100 m (330 ft)
- Density
- 493.7/km (1,279/sq mi)
- Demonyms
- Vegano (female, vegana)
- Time zone
- UTC-4 ( AST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 ( AST )
- Distance
- 36 km (22 mi) to Santiago , 125 km (78 mi) to Santo Domingo
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- big city
- Country
- Dominican Republic
- Located in
- La Vega Province
- Official language
- Spanish
- Population
- 282055
- Area
- 642.1
- Elevation
- 100
- Time zone
- UTC−04:00
- Capital of
- La Vega Province
- Official website
- www.lavega.com
- Image
- La vega 01.JPG
- Dialing code
- 809, 829 y 849
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- twinned administrative body
- Toluca de Lerdo
- Commons category
- La Vega (La Vega)
- inception
- 1494-00-00
- topic's main category
- Category:La Vega, Dominican Republic
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- postal code
- 41000
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
La Vega, officially Concepción de la Vega (Real), is the third most populous city and a municipality of the Dominican Republic. It is the provincial capital of the homonymous province. The city is known as the Carnival epicenter of the Dominican Republic for its tradition and culture, its large agricultural production methods throughout its province.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Vega” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.