Editing Dominican Republic (section)

===Currency===
{{Main|Dominican peso}}
The Dominican peso (abbreviated $ or RD$; [[ISO 4217]] code is "DOP")<ref name="XE">{{cite web|url=http://www.xe.com/currency/dop-dominican-peso|title=(DOP/USD) Dominican Republic Pesos to United States Dollars Rate|publisher=XE.com|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=December 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201172420/http://www.xe.com/currency/dop-dominican-peso|url-status=live}}, {{cite web|url=http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=DOP&To=JPY&image.x=39&image.y=9&image=Submit|title=Peso to Yen|publisher=XE.com|access-date=October 15, 2015|archive-date=September 3, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150903220409/http://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=DOP&To=JPY&image.x=39&image.y=9&image=Submit|url-status=live}} and {{cite web|url=http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=1&From=DOP&To=EUR&image.x=18&image.y=6&image=Submit|title=Peso to Euro|publisher=XE.com}}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> is the national currency, with the [[United States dollar]], the [[Euro]], the [[Canadian dollar]] and the [[Swiss franc]] also accepted at most tourist sites. The exchange rate to the U.S. dollar, liberalized by 1985, stood at 2.70 pesos per dollar in August 1986,<ref name="pons" />{{rp|p417, 428}} 14.00 pesos in 1993, and 16.00 pesos in 2000. {{as of|2018|September}} the rate was 50.08 pesos per dollar.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=DOP|title=XE: Convert USD/DOP. United States Dollar to Dominican Republic Peso|access-date=September 14, 2019|archive-date=September 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902220903/https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=DOP|url-status=live}}</ref>