Valverde Province


Valverde is a province of the Dominican Republic. It was split from Santiago Province in 1959. It is in the northwestern part of the country. Its capital city is Santa Cruz de Mao.
It was created on 1959. It was a municipality of the Santiago province before being elevated to the category of province.

Municipalities and municipal districts

The province as of June 20, 2006 was divided into the following municipalities and municipal districts and the municipal Seat within them:
The following is a sortable table of the municipalities with population figures as of the 2012 census; the population figures for the municipal districts are included within their municipalities. Urban population are those living in the seats of municipalities or of municipal districts. Rural population are those living in the districts and neighborhoods outside of them.
NameTotal populationUrban populationRural population
Esperanza705885273217856
Laguna Salada30041204709571
Santa Cruz de Mao1068188092525893
Valverde Province20744715412753320

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

Name

The province was named Valverde after José Desiderio Valverde, an officer of the Dominican army when the Dominican-Haitian War. Later, he was President of the Dominican Republic for one year. He was from Santiago de los Caballeros.

Geography

The Valverde province has a total area of. It has of the area of the Dominican Republic and it is ranked as the 28th largest province.
South of the city of Mao are the Sierra Samba and part of the Cordillera Central mountain range. The highest mountains of the island are in the Cordillera Central but in the Valverde province there are only low mountains.
There are several important rivers that flow through the territory of the province. The most important river is the Yaque del Norte, that flows from east to west; the other rivers are all tributaries of Yaque del Norte. Other important rivers are Mao and Ámina that come from the Cordillera Central.

Location

The Valverde province is in the northwest part of the Cibao valley. It is bordered to the north by the Puerto Plata province, to the east and south by the Santiago province, to the southwest by the Santiago Rodríguez province and to the west by the Monte Cristi province.