Neiba

Heavy rains hit the island with a reported 528mm falling in Neiba in the Dominican Republic last Friday, where severe flooding and mudslides left three people dead and displaced over 7,000.

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The second administration of Baez opened with a revolution against him in the Neiba district, which was promptly put down.

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The third largest river is the Neiba or Yaque del Sur, which rises near the sources of the Yaque del Norte and pursues a southerly direction for some 180 miles, emptying into Neiba Bay.

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Guaranas River, on the Haitian frontier in the commune of Neiba.

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The tertiary lands are those forming the entire northern part of the island from the central range to the sea, portions of the Samana peninsula between the older rocks, a large area to the southwest of the Zamba hills, smaller tracts between the Jaina and Nizao rivers, and the region between the salt lakes on the Haitian frontier and between Barahona and Neiba.

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Traces of petroleum have also been discovered near Neiba, and in the provinces of Pacificador and Seibo.

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The Neiba Valley, situated in the southwestern portion of the Republic between the Neiba and the Baboruco Mountains is more regular.

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Other towns are _Enriquillo_, formerly called _Petitrú_ (Petit Trou) on the coast 22 miles south of Barahona; _Neiba_, 32 miles northwest of Barahona, founded a century ago and prevented from developing by the damages it sustained first in the Haitian, then in the civil wars; and _Duvergé_, formerly called _Las Damas_, which commands a fine view of Lake Enriquillo with Cabras Island in the distance.

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The modern lands are the coast plains and the small terraces on the south of the central range and on the south of the Baboruco mountains, the Maguana, Azua and Neiba valleys, small areas on the north coast at the foot of the mountains, and the marshes and Yuna River delta at the head of Samana Bay.

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Rock salt is found near Neiba in inexhaustible quantities, there being several hills of native salt covered with a thin layer of soil.

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