They successfully celebrate the XXIII Dominican Congress of Geographical Sciences

Santo Domingo.– With the slogan “Geographic Names as an Element of Identity”, the Dominican National Section of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History (PAIGH) and the National Geographic Institute “José Joaquín Hungría Morell” (IGN-JJHM) held the XXIII Dominican Congress of Geographic Sciences, in Santo Domingo. The event was dedicated to the teacher and researcher Susana Hernández Peña, recognized for her academic career at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) and her contributions to the strengthening of geographical sciences in the country. During the opening ceremony, the director of the IGN-JJHM and president of the Dominican National Section of the IPGH, Lic. Bolívar Troncoso Morales, highlighted the value of geographic names as symbols of identity, history, and territorial culture.

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The conference included lectures by prominent national and international specialists, such as Bepsy Cedeño Montoña and Christian Núñez Solís from Costa Rica, as well as Dominican experts such as Cenia Correa, Oliver Ramos Almonte, María José Rincón González and Marco Antonio Gómez Rodríguez, who addressed different aspects of the use, management and impact of geographic names in the local and regional context.

The congress, which is held annually, aims to generate knowledge and exchanges that contribute to the country’s development through geographical research.