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Monte Cristi Province

Monte Cristi

San Fernando de Monte Cristi, also known as Montecristi, is the capital town of in the . It is located in the northwest region of the country in a coastal area above the border with .
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  • Type: City with 104,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Monte Cristi Province, Dominican Republic
  • Also known as: “Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic”, “Monte Cristo”, “Monte Cristy”, “Monte-Christi”, and “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Osvaldo Virgil Airport.

Aerodrome
Osvaldo Virgil National Airport is an airport in the province of on the north coast of the . The airport was opened in 2006 for tourism with flights from other Dominican airports.

Monte Cristi

Latitude
19.8484° or 19° 50′ 54″ north
Longitude
-71.6457° or 71° 38′ 44″ west
Population
104,000
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
United Nations Location Code
DO MCR
Open location code
77FCR9X3+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 250651186
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3493174
Wiki­data ID
Q2130701
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Satellite Map

Discover Monte Cristi from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Monte Cristi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مونتي كريستي”
  • Asturian: “Monte Cristi”
  • Bengali: “মন্টে ক্রিস্টি”
  • Cebuano: “Monte Cristi (munisipyo sa Republikang Dominikano)”
  • Cebuano: “Monte Cristi”
  • Chinese: “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”
  • Chinese: “蒙特克里斯蒂”
  • Danish: “Monte Cristi”
  • Dutch: “Monte Cristi”
  • Esperanto: “Montecristi”
  • Finnish: “Monte Cristi”
  • French: “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”
  • German: “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”
  • Greek: “Μόντε Κρίστι”
  • Gujarati: “મોન્ટે ક્રિસ્ટી”
  • Hindi: “मोंटे क्रिस्टी”
  • Hungarian: “Monte Cristi”
  • Indonesian: “Monte Cristi”
  • Italian: “San Fernando de Montecristi”
  • Japanese: “サン・フェルナンド・デ・モンテ・クリスティ”
  • Japanese: “モンテ・クリスティ (ドミニカ共和国)”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಟೆ ಕ್ರಿಸ್ಟಿ”
  • Korean: “몬테크리스티”
  • Latvian: “Montekristi”
  • Lithuanian: “Monte Kristi”
  • Lithuanian: “Monte Kristis”
  • Malay: “Monte Cristi”
  • Marathi: “मॉन्टे क्रिस्टी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Monte Cristi”
  • Persian: “مونته کریستی”
  • Polish: “Monte Cristi”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Cristi”
  • Portuguese: “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”
  • Russian: “Монте-Кристи”
  • Russian: “Сан-Фернандо-де-Монте-Кристи”
  • Sinhala: “මොන්ටේ ක්‍රිස්ටි”
  • Slovenian: “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”
  • Spanish: “Monte Cristi (municipio)”
  • Spanish: “Monte Cristi”
  • Swedish: “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”
  • Tamil: “மோன்டே கிர்ஸ்டி”
  • Telugu: “మాంటే క్రిస్టి”
  • Thai: “ซานเฟร์นันโดเดมอนเตกริสติ”
  • Thai: “มอนเตกริสติ”
  • Turkish: “Monte Cristi”
  • Ukrainian: “Монте-Крісті”
  • Ukrainian: “Сан-Фернандо-де-Монте-Крісті”
  • Urdu: “مونتے کریستی”
  • Uzbek: “Monte risti (Dominika Respublikasi)”
  • Uzbek: “Monte risti”
  • Vietnamese: “Monte Cristi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “San Fernando de Monte Cristi”

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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 Wikipedia page “Monte Cristi”. Photo: Sandra Cohen-Rose and Colin Rose, CC BY 2.0.