SANTO DOMINGO ESTE

'Santo Domingo Este' is a municipality and the provincial capital of the Santo Domingo province in the Dominican Republic. Within the municipality there is one municipal district (''distrito municipal''): San Luis.^[1]
As of the 2002 census the municipality had 787,129 inhabitants, 480,749 living in the city itself and 306,380 in its rural districts (''Secciones''). ^[2]
For comparison with other municipalities and municipal districts see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.
Santo Domingo Este was created as municiplaty in 2001 by law 163-01 splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional. ^[3]
Santo Domingo Este is across the Ozama River which divides the east and west sections of metropolitan Santo Domingo.
This eastern side is more residential and least commercially developed but it's undergoing change the same way as the Distrito Nacional.
Recently Santo Domingo Este has experienced growth even thought not with the same rate as Santo Domingo de Guzman. Department stores and malls have been established lately stimulating the economical growth of this section.

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1. Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006 Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos
2. VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda Oficina Nacional de Estadística
3. Ley No. 163-01 que crea la provincia de Santo Domingo, y modifica los Artículos 1 y 2 de la Ley No. 5220, sobre División Territorial de la República Dominicana. EL CONGRESO NACIONAL