The Dominican Republic has a territory of near 48,440 km ² and a 1.6% of this of fresh waters.

It has a predominantly tropical climate and where rains are abundant (1181 mm annual), an average temperature between the 25-30 °C (Maximum: 30°, Averages: 25°, Minims: 20°C), the day expands between 11 and 13 h to the year, according to the season.

Their more important rivers are the rivers Yaque of the North, Yaque of Sur and Yuna. Its point upper is Pico Duarte (3,175 ms) and lowest Lago Enriquillo (30 ms under the level of the sea).

The rainy station sandal from May to November (standing out May, August and September) and, due to their torrential rains, during this time takes place numerous earth landslides. She is prone to the hurricane passage (and in average it happens one every 7.8 years and one tropical storm every 4 years) and floods.

The Dominican culture is a mixture of several cultures, resultant of the migrations and the military occupations (Spanish, French, Haitian, and American). Conserve Hispanic characteristics in the speech and the religion, also in music and its choreographies and instruments. But also, the Dominican culture has many influences African, Antillean, and specially American. Its official religion is the Catholic, but a popular religiosidad exists, that conserves sincréticos characteristics with the animistic religions that brought the different African enslaved ethnic groups who were brought to the Island the Spanish, in original form, and soon expanded to all America, from principles of Century XVI, to replace the decimated taken indigenous population like slave by the Spanish conquerors. This causes that a popular religiosidad based on the religious sincretismo exists, known like the vudú or voudú. Authors like Carlos Esteban Deive, maintain that in Dominican a Vudú like characteristics differentiated from the Haitian Vudú exists, of the Cuban Santería, the Candomblé of Brazil, and the other sincréticas religious manifestations of America and of the Caribbean.