The Laptev Sea, into which the Lena River empties, helps keep the temperature of the world's northernmost regions regulated, through large blocks of ice that from from the Lena's outflow and then break off when the temperature rises at the river's mouth, drifting off to cool.
The Independence of Haiti (1804) Contenidos Adicicionales. Since the late 17th Century, the French holds the western part of Saint-Domingues Island, Hispaniola. A century later, sugar cane production makes Haiti one of the current most prosperous colonies of the Caribbean, thanks to the new independent United States.
After more than three hundred years of Spanish rule the Dominican Republic people declared independence in November 1821. The leader of the independence movement JosÃ© NÃºÃ±ez de CÃ¡ceres, intended the Dominican nation to unite with the country of Gran Colombia.