Bahía de Samaná from Dominican Republic

Samana Bay is a bay in eastern Dominican Republic. The Yuna River, one of the most important on the island of Spanish, empties into the Bay of Samana south is the city of Santa Barbara de Samana and the Samana Peninsula.

Among its attractions are the islands that serve as nesting sites for pelicans and frigates, caves with pre-Columbian pictographs and petroglyphs, and tributaries of the rivers and protected mangroves. In the winter, the Bay of Samana enriquese with the visit of humpback whales calve in the bay.

Bayside is the Los Haitises National Park, which is popular for its caves with pictographs and petroglyphs of Taíno origin, their diversity of birds, mangroves, islands and islets.

Samana Bay also is part of the Marine Mammal Sanctuary of the Dominican Republic, in order to protect whales and dolphins that visit its waters. Each year more than 50,000 tourists visit the Bay of Samana only to spot humpback whales which makes the bay in one of the most important for the Dominican Republic natural, tourist and economic areas