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World Heritage Sites in Dominican Republic
Dominican Republic has 1 site on UNESCO’s World Heritage List — 1 cultural. Below: how they split by type, and the headline sites. From UNESCO’s official list, snapshot 2026-06-22.
SITES1
CULTURAL · NATURAL1 · 0
IN DANGER0
By heritage type
Cultural1 · 100%
Natural0 · 0%
Mixed0 · 0%
Notable sites in Dominican Republic
A spread of the country’s heritage — the rarer mixed and natural sites first, then its earliest inscriptions.
culturalColonial City of Santo Domingo1990
After Christopher Columbus's arrival on the island in 1492, Santo Domingo became the site of the first cathedral, hospital, customs house and university in the Americas. This colonial town, founded in 1498, was laid out on a grid pattern that became the model for almost all town planners in the N…