Videos of people walking and driving around Latin American cities (life, travel)
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Well, elevation moderates the heat and the humidity, making it more comfortable. Flatter land makes it easier and cheaper for a city to expand. These are some of the things that are conducive to successful city building.
Plus, there are many cities that are on flat land and are beautiful (Paris, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, La Habana despite crumbling, etc) and many others on hilly/mountainous terrain that are ugly. Whether a city is beautiful or not depends more on the tastes of the inhabitants at the time the city is expanding (a city could be going through an era of good taste among the people, but if it isn't expanding much at the time then beautiful areas will be quite small in an otherwise drab city) and their ability to finance this type of construction, if it has urban planners who values beauty and how effective they are in enforcing the norms. The natural setting of a city is almost irrelevant regarding this, though some cities such as RÃo de Janeiro or Cape Town are in such a beautiful natural setting that the city could be the most drab place on earth and it would still be spectacular at least looking from afar.
Here is another recent video by the same guy I posted previously in this thread about La Vega, this time in Santo Domingo on a rainy day. This is a more typical look of the city.
Its ironic that he mentions GB as a major Haitian investor in the DR, because the DR office of GB is actually on the black and red building to his right exactly when he speaks of it. I'm sure he was not aware of that and yet, what a coincidence! One investment of the company is supplying fuel oil to airplanes. If you ever fly to the DR, take a good look out the airplane window as the plane settles at the gate. Those trucks with the GB red initials belong to that company. They supply fuel oil on all airports on the island, because the same fuel oil trucks are seen at the Toussaint Loverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince. Gilbert is the richest guy in Haiti and part of the very small Jewish community there, literally a billionaire in US dollars.
Here is another medium size Dominican city that isn't well known outside of the DR. Its in the eastern part of the Cibao Valley. It should not be confused with San Pedro de MacorÃs on the eastern Caribbean coast. San Francisco is also much older thsn San Pedro, the first founded in the 1700's by Spanish families from the Canary Islands while the later was founded almost at the start of the 20th century and is the center of Cocolo culture (black immigrants from the English Caribbean, mostly Lesser Antilles islands such as St Lucia), Arabs (most of Lebanese descent), Spaniards, and Puerto Ricans.
Same guy driving through Moca, another hardly known small city in the DR. Basically, outside the areas of Puerto Plata - Sosua - Cabarete and the Punta Cana - Bávaro areas the DR is hardly known because the vast majority of the international tourists go to those two places. Such a small part of the DR in territory and even in population (together both regions don't make up 5% of the national population), but those are the 'face' of the DR as most foreign people build there perception of what the DR is based on those two regions alone.
Same guy from before. Not so much a city but rather a collection of developments up and down the coast. This is where over 70% of international tourists go, so the area is a major part in the image certain people have of the DR.
Most Colombian cities are some of the densest in the world so a lot of people are on foot or cycling hence a substantial agglomeration of people.
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