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Santa Cruz de Barahona

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The city

What to expect from Santa Cruz de Barahona.

Santa Cruz de Barahona is the main city of the southwest, a port with a malecón facing the Neiba bay and the Sierra de Bahoruco behind. It is the base for the south coast road, with Playa San Rafael, where a mountain river forms freshwater pools beside the sea, and for Lake Enriquillo inland.

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What to see in Santa Cruz de Barahona

Beach

Playa San Rafael

A stony, wave-beaten beach south of Barahona where a mountain river descends in small falls and forms cold freshwater pools beside the sea.

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