El Seibo alternatively spelt El Seybo, is a province

Provinces of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is divided into thirty–one provincias , while the national capital, Santo Domingo, is contained within its own Distrito Nacional ....

 of the Dominican Republic

Dominican Republic

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. Before 1992 it included what is now Hato Mayor province.

Municipalities and municipal districts

The province as of June 20, 2006 is divided into the following municipalities

Municipalities of the Dominican Republic

The provinces of the Dominican Republic are divided into two or more municipalities with the exception of the Distrito Nacional which consist of only one municipality Santo Domingo...

 (municipio

Municipio

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s) and municipal districts (distrito municipal - M.D.) within them:

1. Santa Cruz de El Seibo, head municipality of the province
   1. Pedro Sánchez
      Pedro Sánchez
      Pedro Sánchez is a municipal district of the Santa Cruz del Seibo municipality in the El Seibo province, Dominican Republic. It was founded in 1927 by the Dominican president Horacio Vásquez as an agricultural colony for emigrants from Puerto Rico, Cuba and Spain.- Adventure and Ecotourism :Pedro...
      
       (M.D.)
   2. San Francisco-Vicentillo (M.D.)
   3. Santa Lucía (M.D.)
2. Miches
   Miches
   Miches is a town in the El Seibo province of the Dominican Republic.Miches is a small town with many smaller towns surrounding it. Historically, it has its roots as a fishing town, deriving much of its income and protein from the surrounding waters...
   
   
   1. El Cedro (M.D.)
   2. La Gina (M.D.)

The following is a sortable table of the municipalities with population figures as of an estimate on the 2010 census. Urban

Urban area

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 population are those living in the seats (cabeceras literally heads) of municipalities or of municipal districts. Rural

Rural

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 population are those living in the district

District

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s (Secciones literally sections) and neighborhoods (Parajes literally places) outside of them.
For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

Name	Total population	Urban population	Rural population
Miches Miches Miches is a town in the El Seibo province of the Dominican Republic.Miches is a small town with many smaller towns surrounding it. Historically, it has its roots as a fishing town, deriving much of its income and protein from the surrounding waters...	25,174	12,559	12,615
Santa Cruz de El Seibo	80,820	48,565	32,255
El Seibo province	105,994	61,124	44,870

For comparison with the municipalities and municipal districts of other provinces see the list of municipalities and municipal districts of the Dominican Republic.

Politics

In the 2006 elections, one senator and three deputies were elected for the province. The senator is Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández from the Dominican Revolutionary Party

Dominican Revolutionary Party

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 (PRD). The deputies are Kenia Milagros Mejía Mercedes of the Dominican Liberation Party

Dominican Liberation Party

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 (PLD), Juan Maldonado Castro (PRD), and Juan Roberto Rodríguez Hernández (PRD).

External links

Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Statistics Portal of the Dominican Republic Oficina Nacional de Estadística, Maps with administrative division of the provinces of the Dominican Republic, downloadable in PDF

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