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Bánica

San Francisco de Bánica, or simply Bánica, is a town and municipality in the northwest region of Dominican Republic in the Elías Piña province.

Bánica
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San Francisco de Bánica, or simply Bánica, is a town and municipality in the northwest region of Dominican Republic in the Elías Piña province. It is located on the border with Haiti near the Artibonite river. The name Bánica comes from the Taíno name of the region, Banique.

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Getting to Bánica

Airports
Toussaint Louverture (PAP), 85 km · Cap Haitien (CAP), 90 km · Cibao (STI), 119 km
  • Santiago → Bánica
    5843 km · quickest by air, 17h 43m · CLP$472,770–732,800
  • Santo Domingo → Bánica
    203 km · quickest by road, 5h 4m · $21–29
  • La Romana → Bánica
    298 km · quickest by road, 7h 3m · $30–41
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bánica

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 Bánica. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    666 km
  2. 02
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    747 km
  3. 03
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    905 km
  4. 04
    NevisKN

    8 ways of moving, 15 sources

    982 km
  5. 05
    Capurganá and SapzurroCO

    8 ways of moving, 28 sources

    1,313 km

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