Puerto Plata
Puerto Plata or San Felipe de Puerto Plata is a city in the Dominican Republic with a population of about 130,000. It is the capital of the province of Puerto Plata.Photo: Martin Le Roy, CC BY 2.5.
Photo: Euric2031, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 346,000 residents
- Description: provincial capital of Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
- Also known as: “Port Plata” and “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fortaleza San Felipe.
Fortaleza San Felipe
Museum
Photo: DRW2193, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Fortaleza San Felipe is a historic Spanish fort located in the north of the Dominican Republic in the province of Puerto Plata. Also known as El Morro de San Felipe, it was used to protect the City of Puerto Plata from foreign invaders, pirates, and privateers.
Puerto Plata
- Categories: municipality of the Dominican Republic and locality
- Location: Puerto Plata, Western Cibao, Dominican Republic, Caribbean, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.7892° or 19° 47′ 21″ northLongitude
-70.6926° or 70° 41′ 33″ westPopulation
346,000Elevation
34 metres (112 feet)IATA airport code
POPUnited Nations Location Code
DO POPOpen location code
77FFQ8Q4+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 11610553782OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3493175Wikidata ID
Q988413
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Waray—“Puerto Plata” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ፖርቶ ፕላታ”
- Arabic: “بويرتو بلاتا”
- Armenian: “Պուերտո Պլատա”
- Asturian: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Azerbaijani: “Puerto Plata”
- Bengali: “পুয়ের্তো প্লাতা”
- Bengali: “পুূয়ের্তো প্লাটা”
- Bulgarian: “Сан Фелипе де Пуерто Плата”
- Catalan: “Puerto Plata”
- Catalan: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Cebuano: “Puerto Plata (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Puerto Plata”
- Chinese: “San Antonio de Guerra”
- Chinese: “圣斐利-银港”
- Chinese: “普拉塔港”
- Chinese: “聖斐利-銀港”
- Chinese: “聖菲利佩德普拉塔港”
- Czech: “Puerto Plata”
- Danish: “Puerto Plata”
- Dutch: “Puerto Plata”
- Esperanto: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Estonian: “Puerto Plata”
- Finnish: “Puerto Plata”
- French: “Puerto Plata”
- French: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Galician: “Puerto Plata”
- German: “Puerto Plata”
- German: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Greek: “Πουέρτο Πλάτα”
- Gujarati: “પ્યુર્ટો પ્લાટા”
- Hausa: “Puerto Plata”
- Hebrew: “פוארטו פלטה”
- Hindi: “प्यूर्टो प्लाटा”
- Hindi: “प्वेर्टो प्लाटा”
- Indonesian: “Puerto Plata”
- Italian: “Puerto Plata”
- Italian: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Japanese: “サン・フェリペ・デ・プエルト・プラタ”
- Japanese: “プエルト・プラタ”
- Javanese: “Puerto Plata”
- Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಟೊ ಪ್ಲಾಟಾ”
- Kazakh: “Пуэрто-Плата”
- Kirghiz: “Пуэрто-Плата”
- Korean: “푸에르토플라타”
- Latvian: “Puertoplata”
- Lithuanian: “Puerto Plata”
- Malay: “Puerto Plata”
- Marathi: “प्वेर्टो प्लाटा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “San Antonio de Guerra”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Puerto Plata”
- Norwegian: “Puerto Plata”
- Oromo: “Puerto Plata”
- Panjabi: “ਪੁਏਰਤੋ ਪਲਾਤਾ”
- Persian: “پوئرتو پلاتا”
- Polish: “Puerto Plata”
- Portuguese: “Puerto Plata”
- Portuguese: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Pushto: “پیورتو پلاتا”
- Russian: “Пуэрто-Плата”
- Russian: “Сан-Фелипе-де-Пуэрто-Плата”
- Silesian: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Sinhala: “පුවර්ටෝ ප්ලාටා”
- Slovak: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Slovenian: “Puerto Plata”
- Slovenian: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Somali: “Puerto Plata”
- Spanish: “Puerto Plata”
- Spanish: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Swahili: “Puerto Plata”
- Swedish: “Puerto Plata”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Пуэрто Плата”
- Tamil: “போர்டோ பிளாடா”
- Tatar: “Puerto Plata”
- Telugu: “ప్వేర్టో ప్లాటా”
- Thai: “ปูเอร์โตปลาตา”
- Turkish: “Puerto Plata”
- Turkish: “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
- Ukrainian: “Сан Феліпе де Пуерто Плата”
- Ukrainian: “Сан-Феліпе-де-Пуерто-Плата”
- Urdu: “پورتو پلاتا”
- Uzbek: “Puerto Plata (shahar)”
- Uzbek: “Puerto Plata”
- Vietnamese: “Puerto Plata”
- Waray (Philippines): “San Felipe de Puerto Plata”
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