Puerto Plata Province

{{Short description|Province of the Dominican Republic}}

{{About|the Dominican province|its capital, whose shortened form is also "Puerto Plata"|San Felipe de Puerto Plata}}

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| name = Puerto Plata

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| settlement_type = Province

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| image_caption = Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic downtown area

| image_flag = Flag of Puerto Plata province.png

| image_shield = Puerto Plata Old Shield.svg

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| motto = La Tacita de Plata
La novia del Atlantico

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| image_map = File:Puerto Plata in Dominican Republic.svg

| map_caption = Location of the Puerto Plata Province

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| coordinates = {{coord|19|44|12|N|70|46|12|W}}

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| leader_title1 = Congresspersons

| leader_name1 = 1 Senator
6 Deputies

| government_type = Subdivisions

| governing_body = 9 municipalities
12 municipal districts

| seat = San Felipe de Puerto Plata

| seat_type = Capital

| established_title = Province since

| established_date = 1850

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| blank_info = 1-809 1-829 1-849

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Puerto Plata ({{IPA|es|pweɾtoˈplata}}, Silver Port); ({{langx|fr|Port-de-Plate}}){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cfRO58f270MC&pg=PA38|title=A Topographical and Political Description of the Spanish Part of Saint-Domingo; Containing, General Observations on the Climate, Population and Productions; on the Character and Manners of the Inhabitants; with an Account of the Several Branches of the Government, Volume 1|author=Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry|page=38|year=1796|publisher=British Library|accessdate=25 May 2024}} is a province in northern Dominican Republic. It is divided into 9 municipalities, 12 municipal districts and its capital is the resort city of the same name. Neighboring provinces clockwise: Monte Cristi to the southwest, Valverde and Santiago to the south and Espailat to the east, along with the Septentrional mountain range to the north (which separates it from Laguna Salada), and has a coastline with the Atlantic Ocean. The area has become an increasingly popular tourist attraction since the late 1990s mainly due to its fine beaches.

Created from the Santiago Province in 1867 as a "maritime district", it became a province in 1907, when maritime districts were suppressed by a new Dominican constitution.