samana - santo domingo highway

Jasper

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Bienvenidos al Hoy Digital

seems that these idiots are taking the shortest route possible and cutting a swath right through the national park (as reported in environment forum). can anybody shed light on this. if so, it needs to be stopped, pronto! and rerouted outside of the park. what a blight on the region this would be!
 

Andy B

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I recently flew over part of the road cutting through the park. From what I could see, other than the immediate roadway and right-of-way on each side, there seemed to be very little destruction of foliage. Just a road passing through the higher ground at the westernmost edge of the park should not be an ecological problem. However if they had it passing through the mangrove wetlands at the edge of the bay that would be another situation altogether.
 

Jasper

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that's good news andy!

in my opinion, the government will have to do the following:

- ban any type of business along the highway inside the park
- ban any type of residential construction (permanent home or shanty)
- apply steep fines for litter

by the way, you have photos of this or airport from your ride in the sky?
 

Andy B

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I don't have any pics of the road as the camera was packed away in our luggage. We were too low at 1,600' to see the el Catey airport very well, just a spot on the horizon.
 

aegap

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Here's the World Banks Invironmental impact study for the SD-SMN highway which includeds. It includes a section for dealing with the park; "9.3.1 Plan for managing the passage though the "Parque Natural Los
Haitises" 230"


some of many instances where the park is mentioned:

..From Cabrete, in the community of Guerra, up to Majagual cattle raising is
significant, however, from the Macizo of Los Haitises it reaches the Valley of Bajo
Yuna, were rice is predominantly grown

Then, the road penetrates the Province of Monte Plata through the municipality
which has the same name, and passes through the road which links the Municipality
of Bayaguana with Monte Plata and leaves the province through the Municipal
District of Majagual, located at the Municipality of Sabana Grande de Boyd;
affecting small populations in each of the aforementioned municipalities.
After crossing several kilometers through the National Park of Los Haitises, it
penetrates part of the Municipality of Arenoso, in the Province of Duarte and leaves
through the Crossing of Rinc6n de Molinillo, in the Municipality of Nagua, in the
Province of Maria Trinidad Sanchez, just on the border of Municipality of Sanchez
in the Province of Samana.

From Majagual the road follows the existing cart road (nine km) into Los Haitises
until it exits near the town of Guaraguao (Bajo Yuna), and it takes the route that links
Guaraguao with Rinc6n de Molinillos branching off three km before reaching this
crossing, going through La Mata del Aguacate.

The area of Los Haitises constitutes a karst relief integrated by isolated domes of
very hard reef limestone, separated by depressions or drains filled with laterite
ground coming from neighboring residual origin.

3.1 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
The alignment starts at the Autopista de Las Americas, at km 15, near the current
tollbooth that can be found in the direction of the Aeropuerto Internacional de las
Americas, it continues heading north passing at the East of the Monte Plata
Municipality, continuing up to the municipalities of Sabana Grande de Boyd and
Majagual, it crosses Los Haitises National Park and it continues through the
Guaraguao Municipality, where the road passes by the great marsh up to the crossing
of the current roadway that goes from Nagua to Samana


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