Santo Domingo Este

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subdivision_name2 = Santo Domingo Province
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established_title = Founded
established_date = August 5, 1494
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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. [cite web |url=http://www.one.gob.do/index.php?option=com_docman&task=cat_view&gid=113|title=Listado de Codigos de Provincias, Municipio y Distritos Municipales, Actualizada a Junio 20 del 2006|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadistica, Departamento de Cartografia, Division de Limites y Linderos|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-01-24]

As of the 2008 census the municipality had 624,704 inhabitants, 435,510 living in the city itself and 189,194 in its rural districts ("Secciones"). [cite web |url=http://one.gob.do/censo/volumen_I_pdf.zip
format = PDF|title=VIII Censo 2002 Poplación y Vivienda|author=Oficina Nacional de Estadística|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-01-24] 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 municipality in 2001 by law 163-01 splitting the Santo Domingo province from the Distrito Nacional. [cite web |url=http://www.informejudicial.com/leyes/Division%20Territorial/Ley%20163-01,%20crea%20Provincia%20Santo%20Domingo%20y%20Modifica%20Articulos%201%20y%202%20Ley%205220.htm|title=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.|author=EL CONGRESO NACIONAL|language=Spanish|accessdate=2007-03-08]

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 less commercially developed, but it is undergoing change the same way as the Distrito Nacional.

Recently Santo Domingo Este has experienced growth even though not at 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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