This story is about Amelia and she is a cow. She has always wanted to travel to places. Her first place she wanted to go was the Dominican Republic. 

Everyone wants to take a vacation to the Dominican Republic. One day, Amelia asks her parents if they can go to the Dominican Republic. She has been wanting to go for a very long time. Her parents told her that they would take her. She was so happy that she went and ran around the pasture a couple times. They had to ride a plane. It took them about 7 hours to get there. They finally arrived.

The first place Amelia wanted to go to the Daniel Espinal monument. The address is Daniel Espinal, Santiago De Los Caballeros 51000, Dominican Republic.

Daniel Espinal Monument

Absolute location

Relative location

She had to look at a map to see what town the monument  was in and what the town was close to. She saw that it is in the town of Santiago De Los Caballeros. This is west of the city called San Victor.

This is a map of what is around the Daniel Espinal Monument

Physical Characteristics

Amelia wanted to things that were made by nature. Like things that were made by rivers, hurricanes, and earthquakes. She went to see Pico Duarte first. Pico is a mountain and the highest peak in the Carribean islands. 

Pico mountain

She also went to visit another mountain called Loma La Pelona.

Loma La Pelona mountain

The last place she went to that was made by nature, was the Yuna River. She loved to swim so she swam in the river.

Yuna River

Human Characteristics

The next thing Amelia wanted to see was the things that were made by humans. The first place she went was the Columbus lighthouse. When she was there she found  saw that it opened in 1922 and it is was a gift to Christopher Columbus. 

Columbus lighthouse

The next place she visited was the Altar de la Patria. It is also called Altar of the Homeland. It opened in 1976.

Altar de la Patria

The next place she went to see was the Fortaleza San Luis. She was standing right where several battles were fought.

Fortaleza San Luis

Movement - Products

Amelia went to a museum and got to see the kinds of movements the Dominican Republic did. One of the movements was products and one of the products was Cane Sugar. The Dominican has many products this is just one of them. It is grown in 9 provinces in the Dominican. 

Cane Sugar

Movement - Ideas

Another movement was the idea of two dances. They are two dances that come from the Domincan Republic. The first one is called the Bachata. It is a three-step with a Cuban hip motion.

The second one is called the Merengue. It is where you dance with your hands in a closed position.

The Bachata

The Merengue

The movement of people was the last movement she learned about. The Haitians are being deported because the people in the Dominican are kicking them out whenever they feel like it because the Haitians are taking their jobs. They have deported 70,000 to 80,000 people. 

People being deported

As she was driving to all of these different places she got to see how humans interacted with their environment.

The first thing she saw how humans have changed their environment. They are taking down trees and buildings and putting new resorts up. There are over 100 hotels and resorts. 

One of many resorts

People have to adapt to their environment because they live near an ocean. Hurricanes and tsunamis come through there. They always have to be prepared. 

A hurricane hitting the Dominican Republic

Farmers adapt during hurricanes or nasty weather is by taking their animals to a shelter. The shelter is called the Emergency Livestock Shelter.  After the farmers move their animals, along with other people, they go to a refuge with their families and neighbors. 

Goats in the Emergency Livestock Shelter