Hispaniola

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Caribbean island Greater Antilles island island

Hispaniola is a major Caribbean island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic and was one of the earliest and most important centers of Spanish colonization in the Americas.

Aliases (3)

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Caribbean island → Greater Antilles island → island →
area	about 76480 square kilometers →
borderBetweenStates	border between Haiti and Dominican Republic →
colonizedBy	Spain →
containsCapitalOf	Dominican Republic → Haiti →
containsCity	Port-au-Prince → Santo Domingo →
countryOnIsland	Dominican Republic → Haiti →
dateOfEuropeanDiscovery	1492 →
discoveredByEuropeans	Christopher Columbus →
earlyColonyOf	Spanish Empire →
easternPartOccupiedBy	Dominican Republic →
formerName	Española → La Española → Santo Domingo →
hasBiodiversityHotspot	Caribbean Islands biodiversity hotspot →
hasClimate	tropical →
hasCoastOn	Atlantic Ocean → Caribbean Sea →
hasHighestPoint	Pico Duarte →
hasMajorLake	Lake Azuei → Lake Enriquillo →
hasMajorLanguage	French → Haitian Creole → Spanish →
hasMajorRiver	Artibonite River → Yaque del Norte River →
hasPoliticalDivision	Dominican Republic → Republic of Haiti →
highestPointElevation	about 3098 meters →
isPartOfArchipelago	West Indies →
largestIslandIn	Greater Antilles after Cuba →
locatedIn	Caribbean Sea → Greater Antilles →
locatedInTimeZone	UTC−05:00 →
locatedOnContinent	North America →
rankByAreaInCaribbean	second-largest island in the Caribbean →
separatedFrom	Cuba by Windward Passage → Puerto Rico by Mona Passage →
sharesIslandWith	Dominican Republic → Haiti →
wasFirstPermanentEuropeanSettlementInAmericasFor	Spain →
wasImportantCenterOf	Spanish colonization in the Americas →
westernPartOccupiedBy	Haiti →

Referenced by (30)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Caribbean islands → Greater Antilles → Spanish Empire → Spanish West Indies → West Indies →	hasPart
Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone → Pico Duarte → Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic →	locatedIn
Bahamas → Lucayan Archipelago →	liesNorthOf
Dominican Republic ("island of Hispaniola") → Haiti ("island of Hispaniola") →	locatedOn
French colony of Saint-Domingue → Port-au-Prince →	locatedOnIsland
Lucayan Archipelago →	borderedBy
Antilles →	contains
voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas →	exploredRegion
Septentrional-Oriente fault zone →	extendsFrom
Hispaniola ("La Española") →	formerName
Caribbean →	includes
Taíno →	inhabitedRegion
Pico Duarte →	isHighestPointOf
Colombian Basin →	liesSouthwestOf
Mona Passage →	locatedEastOf
American flamingo →	nativeTo
Milwaukee Deep →	nearbyIsland
1492: Conquest of Paradise (film score) ("Hispanola") →	notableTrack
Christopher Columbus →	reached
Diego Columbus →	regionGoverned
Mona Passage →	separates