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Santo Domingo Oeste

Santo Domingo Oeste is a municipality of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic.

Santo Domingo Oeste
Santo Domingo Oeste · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Santo Domingo Oeste

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez

    Estadio Olímpico Félix Sánchez is an open-air multi-purpose stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Opened in 1974 for the XII Central American & Caribbean Games and renovated for the 2003 Pan American Games, it is the largest stadium in the Dominican Republic.

    8.8 km · multi-purpose stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Autonomous University of Santo Domingo

    Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo is a public university system in Dominican Republic, with its flagship campus in Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood of Santo Domingo and regional campuses in many cities of the country.

    9.7 km · public university in the Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple

    The Santo Domingo Dominican Republic Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It was the first temple to be built in the church's Caribbean Area and its 99th worldwide.

    9.5 km · temple of the LDS church · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Universidad Católica Santo Domingo

    Universidad Católica Santo Domingo is a private Catholic university located in the archdiocese of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. The university was established in 1982, with 65 students entering the school in the following year.

    9.2 km · university located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal

    Estadio Quisqueya Juan Marichal, popularly known as Estadio Quisqueya, is a baseball stadium in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It is often used as a multi-purpose stadium.

    7.9 km · baseball stadium in Santo Domingo · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Pedro Henriquez Urena National University

    The Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña is a Private, coeducational, university in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

    5.7 km · public university in the Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino

    The University of St. Thomas Aquinas is, from a historical perspective, the first university founded in the Americas.

    9.7 km · historic university in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Dr. Rafael Ma. Moscoso National Botanical Garden

    Garden in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

    4.5 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Centro Israelita de República Dominicana

    The Centro Israelita de República Dominicana is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. The Chabad Lubavitch movement was established in the Dominican Republic in 2008, and the congregation has grown and developed since then.

    8.6 km · synagogue in the Dominican Republic · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Teatro Nacional Eduardo Brito

    Eduardo Brito National Theater is a venue in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The centerpiece of the Plaza de la Cultura complex, it regularly hosts opera, ballet, classical music performances, and Latin pop concerts.

    10 km · theatre in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Santo Domingo Oeste

Airports
Las Américas (SDQ), 36 km · Casa De Campo (LRM), 115 km · Cibao (STI), 119 km
Stations
La Isabela International Airport, 8.6 km · Herrera International Airport, 4.7 km · Juan Pablo Duarte (Santo Domingo Metro), 9.2 km · Amín Abel (Santo Domingo Metro), 9.9 km · Centro de los Héroes (Santo Domingo Metro), 9.4 km
  • Santiago → Santo Domingo Oeste
    5778 km · quickest by air, 15h 30m · CLP$471,380–730,660
  • La Romana → Santo Domingo Oeste
    109 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $10–14
  • Punta Cana → Santo Domingo Oeste
    168 km · quickest by road, 3h 23m · $16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Santo Domingo Oeste

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Santo Domingo Oeste. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOr, go up to the second floor at the Arrivals (at the very end), where a minivan will accommodate up to 8 passengers for a ride for RD$70 (pesos) for 1/2 hour to the Zona Colonial (only).
  • Get inThere is ferry service to and from Mayaguez as well as San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  • Get inThe former company, Ferries del Caribe is now out of business and the new provider is called America Cruise Ferries.

From Wikivoyage: Santo Domingo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    483 km
  2. 02
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    567 km
  3. 03
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    721 km
  4. 04
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    796 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,354 km

If you know how people move in Santo Domingo Oeste – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Santo Domingo Oeste

Santo Domingo Oeste is 12 km from Santo Domingo, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Bajos de Hainamunicipality of the Dominican Republic9.4 km
  • Los Alcarrizosmunicipality in the Dominican Republic2.6 km
  • Arroyo Manzanohuman settlement in the Dominican Republic1.8 km
  • La Juliahuman settlement in the Dominican Republic1.8 km
  • Bella Vistaneighbourhood of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic7.6 km
  • La Agustinahuman settlement in the Dominican Republic1.8 km