When visiting Barahona province, be sure to book a stay at Casa Bonita, a luxury boutique hotel and member of Small Luxury Hotels of the World nestled on a hill between the sea and mountains.

U.S. Army South marked the official start of Beyond the Horizon-Dominican Republic 2014, during a ceremony in Barahona, Dominican Republic, May 6, 2014, where U.S. military engineers and medical ...

Miners work inside a mine for the blue-green gemstone known as larimar in Las Filipinas, Barahona province, Dominican Republic, March 18, 2015.

BARAHONA, Dominican Republic -- U.S. Army and Air Force engineers assigned to Task Force Larimar are participating in the 2014 humanitarian civic assistance mission Beyond the Horizon here.

Around one in 90 children born in Las Salinas, in the Dominican Republic's Barahona province, are born with the condition which sees them naturally transform from females to males during puberty.