Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo (pop. 1,410,000), capital and chief port of the Dominican Republic, at the mouth of the Ozama River. Its official name was Ciudad Trujillo (1930–61). Founded by Columbus's brother Bartholomew (1496), it is the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in the Western Hemisphere, with a university dating from 1538. It was the site of the first Church in the New World.

See also: Dominican Republic.