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Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic
🦒 Zoo or wildlife park, Dominican Republic 70 spp. present
18.508° N 69.928° W
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Essentials
Entrance
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Tourism
Medium
Species present
70
speciesOpened
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Size
Large
Visit
Getting there
- Address
- Avenida Paseo de los Reyes Catolicos, Santo Domingo
What visitors say
🦒 Animals in captivity
Before you go
Where is Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá?
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá is a zoo or wildlife park in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at Avenida Paseo de los Reyes Catolicos, Santo Domingo. Its coordinates are 18.508° N, 69.928° W. The nearest national park in our atlas is Los Haitises National Park, about 64 km away.
What animals can you see at Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá?
70 species
Citizen-science photos record 70 species at Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá, including American Flamingo, White-throated Toucan, Red Deer, Red-tailed Hawk and Dromedary Camel. Those with a page of their own in our atlas show the odds of seeing them in the wild.
Where can you see the animals of Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá in the wild?
American Flamingo: Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve
Some of the animals photographed at Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá also live in the parks and cities we cover: American Flamingo (about 70% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve), White-throated Toucan (about 60% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve) and Red Deer (about 80% of wildlife watchers report it on a given day in Monfragüe National Park).
When did Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá open and how big is it?
66 ha
Parque y Zoológico Nacional Arquitecto Manuel Valverde Podestá, a zoo or wildlife park in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, covers about 66 ha, according to Wikidata and OpenStreetMap. Today 70 species are photographed there.
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Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · iNaturalist observers