Here's a very recent thread,
http://www.dr1.com/forums/north-east-coast/67853-current-status-samana-santo-domingo-highway.html#21
that would be nice....i would love to know exactly where east of santo domingo this highway will originate!
HERE
All the darkened communities below you can find on
this map.
The project contemplates construction of the road Santo Domingo-Cruce Rinc6n de
Molinillos (between Nagua and Sanchez) with a total length of 106 km. This road
will connect the national district of Santo Domingo with the roadway that connects
Nagua, Sanchez and Samana, at the northeastern coast of the Dominican Republic..
The road starts at km 15 of the Autopista de Las Americas (
highway number 3, on the South Coast, East of Santo Domingo and West of Boca Chica) heading north, ...After the crossing with the Mella
(Highway number 4)roadway , the road turns northeast up to the crossing
with the roadway that links the town of Bayaguana to Monte Plata (approximately
seven km from Monte Plata) [
roadway number 23), over clayey strips.
Then it crosses the roadway that links Monte Plata to Sanchez and it continues in the
northeastern direction until it converges with the existing cart road that links
Sabana
Grande de Boya with the sector known as Procad6n (dairy barns), the cart road has
an average width of five m with a junction length of approximately 12 km. In its
route it passes near the batey Sabanalarga,
Gonzalo and Tarana, where the project
turns to the north.
In this sector of the Ozama River basin, the tributaries that stand out are the Cach6n
Stream, the Marucho Channel, the Yabacao River, Hundidero Stream, Palmilla
Stream, Socoa Stream, and Toro Prieto Stream.
Near the town of Sabana Grande de Boya and heading towards Majagual it crosses at
several points with the Sabana Grande de Boya -
Majagual roadway passing near the
Batey Enriquillo,
Juan Sanchez and
Batey Nuevo, an area with karst limestone, and
inside the Aras River basin.
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 (
El 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.
This last stretch crosses the area of the Gran Esteroun the area of the Bajo Yuna
whose main characteristic is bad drainage due to the low slopes that are present in
the area, with a flood prairie conformed by fine sediments associated with lenses of
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sandy slit, sands and fine gravel. The project meets the Yuna River at the town of
Reforma, between
Villa Riva and El Lim6n.