Higüey

Higüey, or in full Salvaleón de Higüey, is the capital city of the eastern , in the , and has 415,084 inhabitants, according to the 2022 census.
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  • Type: City with 124,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of La Altagracia Province, Dominican Republic
  • Also known as: “Salvaleón de Higüey”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Basílica Catedral Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia.

Church
Photo: Celiovmota, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica-Cathedral of Our Lady of Altagracia is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and cathedral in the dedicated to Our Lady of Altagracia, patroness of the nation.

Higüey

Latitude
18.6131° or 18° 36′ 47″ north
Longitude
-68.7114° or 68° 42′ 41″ west
Population
124,000
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
Open location code
77CHJ77Q+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 250651118
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3493240
Wiki­data ID
Q1020261
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Waray—“Higüey” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ሳልቫሌዖን ዴ ሂጉዬ”
  • Arabic: “سالفاليون دي هيغويي”
  • Asturian: “Higüey”
  • Azerbaijani: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Bengali: “সালভালিওন ডে হিগুয়ে”
  • Catalan: “Higüey”
  • Cebuano: “Higüey”
  • Cebuano: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Chinese: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Chinese: “伊圭”
  • Chinese: “西歸”
  • Czech: “Higüey”
  • Czech: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Dutch: “Higuey”
  • Dutch: “Higüey”
  • Esperanto: “Higüey”
  • Finnish: “Higüey”
  • French: “Higuey”
  • French: “Higüey”
  • Galician: “Higüey”
  • German: “Higüey”
  • German: “Salvaleon de Higüey”
  • German: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Hausa: “Higüey”
  • Hausa: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Hebrew: “איגוויי”
  • Hindi: “सालवालियॉन डे हिगुएय”
  • Hungarian: “Higüey”
  • Indonesian: “Higüey”
  • Indonesian: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Italian: “Higüey”
  • Italian: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Japanese: “イグエイ”
  • Japanese: “サルバレオン・デ・イグエイ”
  • Javanese: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Kazakh: “Игуэй”
  • Kazakh: “Сальвалеон-де-Игуэй”
  • Kirghiz: “Сальвалеон-де-Игуэй”
  • Korean: “이구에이”
  • Korean: “이궤이”
  • Lithuanian: “Higvėjus”
  • Macedonian: “Игвеј”
  • Malay: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Higüey”
  • Norwegian: “Higüey”
  • Oromo: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Ossetian: “Игуэй”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਲਵਾਲਿਓਨ ਦੇ ਹਿਗੁਈ”
  • Persian: “ایگوی”
  • Persian: “سالوالئون دهیغویی”
  • Polish: “Higuey”
  • Polish: “Higüey”
  • Polish: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Portuguese: “Higüey”
  • Portuguese: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Pushto: “سالوالیون دی ہیگویې”
  • Russian: “Игёй”
  • Russian: “Игуэй”
  • Russian: “Сальвалеон-де-Игуэй”
  • Somali: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Spanish: “Alcalde”
  • Spanish: “Higüey”
  • Spanish: “Rafael Baron Duluc Rijo (Cholitín)”
  • Spanish: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Swahili: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Swedish: “Higuey”
  • Swedish: “Higüey”
  • Swedish: “Salvaleon de Higuey”
  • Swedish: “Salvaleón de Higüey”
  • Tajik: “Сальвалеон-де-Игуэй”
  • Tatar: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Thai: “ซัลบาเลออนเดอิเกวย์”
  • Turkish: “hüişlkç”
  • Turkish: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Ukrainian: “Ігуей”
  • Urdu: “ایغوئے”
  • Urdu: “سالوالیون ڈی ہیگویے”
  • Uzbek: “Higüey (city)”
  • Uzbek: “Higüey”
  • Uzbek: “Salvaleon de Higueey”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Salvaleón de Higüey”

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