Barahona

Barahona is a town and a province of the Dominican Republic. Barahona is a remote region of the Dominican Republic. It is sparsely populated and wildly beautiful. Very few travelers venture here, but the adventure of it all makes it rewarding.
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  • Type: City with 138,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Dominican Republic
  • Also known as: Barahona, Dominican Republic”, “Barahona, DR”, and “Santa Cruz de Barahona

Barahona

Latitude
18.2102° or 18° 12′ 37″ north
Longitude
-71.1012° or 71° 6′ 4″ west
Population
138,000
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
IATA airport code
BRX
United Nations Location Code
DO BRX
Open location code
77CC6V6X+3G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 250651408
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3492985
Wiki­data ID
Q958586
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Barahona” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: باراهونا
  • Asturian: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Basque: Barahona (Dominikar Errepublika)
  • Basque: Barahona
  • Bengali: বারাহোনা
  • Catalan: Barahona
  • Cebuano: Barahona
  • Cebuano: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Chinese: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Chinese: 巴拉奥纳
  • Chinese: 巴拉奧納
  • Danish: Barahona
  • Dutch: Barahona
  • Egyptian Arabic: باراهونا
  • Finnish: Barahona
  • Finnish: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • French: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • German: Barahona
  • German: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Greek: Μπαραόνα
  • Gujarati: બારાહોના
  • Hindi: बाराहोना
  • Hungarian: Barahona
  • Indonesian: Barahona
  • Irish: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Italian: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Japanese: サンタ・クルス・デ・バラオナ
  • Japanese: バラオナ
  • Japanese: バラオナ州
  • Kannada: ಬರೋಹೋನಾ
  • Korean: 바라오나
  • Latvian: Baraona
  • Lithuanian: Barahona
  • Malay: Barahona
  • Marathi: बाराहोन
  • Min Nan Chinese: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Barahona
  • Persian: بارائونا
  • Polish: Barahona
  • Portuguese: Barahona
  • Portuguese: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Russian: Бараона
  • Russian: Санта-Крус-де-Бараона
  • Sinhala: බරහොනා
  • Spanish: Barahona (República Dominicana)
  • Spanish: Barahona
  • Spanish: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Swedish: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Tamil: பராஹோனா
  • Telugu: బరహోన
  • Thai: บาราโอนา
  • Turkish: Barahona
  • Ukrainian: Бараона
  • Ukrainian: Санта-Крус-де-Бараона
  • Urdu: بارائونا
  • Uzbek: Barahona
  • Uzbek: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Venetian: Santa Cruz de Barahona
  • Vietnamese: Barahona
  • Waray (Philippines): Santa Cruz de Barahona

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Barahona”. Photo: LucasMPerez, CC BY-SA 4.0.